Apple nukes MAX: 20M users left staring at blank iPhone screens
Oh joy, another day in the walled garden where Apple decides what 20 million people get to install. Maksut Shadaev is throwing a tantrum because his precious MAX messenger got the boot, proving once again that corporate ego trumps utility.
Apple silently yanked the MAX messenger from the App Store, leaving millions of users in a digital void. The situation is less of a technical mystery and more of a classic cleanup move, as the app simply vanished from search results and direct links now return a beautiful, empty error page.
The fallout is strictly functional: the app’s push notification token was revoked the moment it hit the bin. Since iOS is notoriously possessive about its background processes, the messenger can no longer wake up the phone to alert users of incoming messages. The developer's advice is a masterclass in optimism: just open the app manually and hope for the best. Maksut Shadaev claims his ministry received zero warnings, which is a convenient way to ignore the reality of how Apple handles compliance.
It is genuinely adorable to watch officials pretend they have leverage over a trillion-dollar company that treats sovereign borders like minor software bugs. Whether this is a political flex or a violation of terms of service, the result is the same: the users are the ones left holding the expensive, notification-less bricks.
Source: vedomosti.ru
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