It means that whatever apple says, they are only driven by the market.
Any stance they have on privacy or security is pure bullshit, they don't and will never give a crap about it, they only care about their revenue, otherwise they wouldn't be in China for example.
In this case, it proves that whatever they say about their stupid store and authoritarian approach to it, it is not and will never be in the interest of their users.
It is just to make it easy for apple to enforce anything, whatever the source of the decision is, a dictator like here, or to destroy competition before launching their own crap like their keyboard on their watch.
If apple would have cared once about their customers, they wouldn't have created an ecosystem that jailed them and would still make it easy for users to install the app they want.
No it is not that obvious and that's my whole point.
The real goal of their app store is not user convenience, security or safety, it's to be able to fully control what the user can and cannot do.
They created the perfect environment to enforce this kind of decision, because that's what their real goal is, this kind of news shows it.
They need to remove all freedom from their users, to feel safe as a business in any kind of market.
If Apple had integrity, they would allow to install apps outside of the store and other stores. This way they could still be within the limits of governments while not putting their own customers in bad situations, but they are fighting really hard against it.
I'm talking about integrity, not criminality though.
They could have rolled out an update allowing users to install apps outside of the store instead of just removing the app from the store for example.
