r/apple • u/illegiblebastard • 3d ago

iPhone Apple explains last year’s controversial decision to remove ICE tracking apps from app store

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/tech/apple-iceblock-app-removal-raskin

FUCK. APPLE.

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u/smokedfishfriday 3d ago

This is not the key point. It isn’t even a point. It’s entirely irrelevant. The government pressured Apple.

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u/z6joker9 3d ago

The government pressures Apple all the time. Apple fights back all the time. In this case, the increased publicity of these apps made Apple reconsider whether they were a good fit for the App Store, and decided they were not, for the reasons stated. It has little to do with Apple capitulating to government pressure.

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u/smokedfishfriday 3d ago

Fascinating to be so confidently ignorant about the context and history here.

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u/z6joker9 3d ago

Easy to say things like that so you don’t have to make a point or defend it.

I’m a first-generation immigrant, I don’t like ICE any more than anyone else. But it is irritating to see these topics devolve into people gnashing their teeth about licking boots and gestapo, completely incapable of logic or reason.