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0 pointsem-bee2y ago0 comments

i travel a lot. and that means, i sometimes leave my home for months at a time. more than 30 days.

when roaming with a chinese sim card, all my traffic keeps going through china, regardless how long i leave the country. so for practical purposes, it is like i never left the country.

but if i use an EU sim, suddenly after 30 days i am no longer considered to be part of the EU? as an EU citizen? how does that make any sense?

EU laws should apply as long as i use a EU sim card, regardless how long i am outside of the country. only when i switch sims, then i find it acceptable to say that EU law should no longer apply to my phone.

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tmottabr2y ago

When using a EU sim your traffic will still go trough the EU server.

But the EU laws stop applying at the border. The third-party stores are there because of a EU law that does not apply on any other country.

If they wanted they could make the store stop working the minute you step out of the EU and they would still be following the law.

Brian_K_White2y ago

What belies this is the fact that they do this differently for the specific intersection of the EU and the app store than they do for any of the many other long standing geofenced functions.

tmottabr2y ago

simple.. other geo-fenced functions are not related to laws and apple does not care about it, but third-party stores are both.

Apple stance is that they are against third-party stores and that they will not have it available unless they are forced to.

only place where they are forced to make third-party stores available is EU, so that is the only place where they will be available.

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0 pointsem-bee2y ago0 comments

i travel a lot. and that means, i sometimes leave my home for months at a time. more than 30 days.

when roaming with a chinese sim card, all my traffic keeps going through china, regardless how long i leave the country. so for practical purposes, it is like i never left the country.

but if i use an EU sim, suddenly after 30 days i am no longer considered to be part of the EU? as an EU citizen? how does that make any sense?

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tmottabr2y ago

When using a EU sim your traffic will still go trough the EU server.

But the EU laws stop applying at the border. The third-party stores are there because of a EU law that does not apply on any other country.

If they wanted they could make the store stop working the minute you step out of the EU and they would still be following the law.

Brian_K_White2y ago

What belies this is the fact that they do this differently for the specific intersection of the EU and the app store than they do for any of the many other long standing geofenced functions.

tmottabr2y ago

simple.. other geo-fenced functions are not related to laws and apple does not care about it, but third-party stores are both.

Apple stance is that they are against third-party stores and that they will not have it available unless they are forced to.

only place where they are forced to make third-party stores available is EU, so that is the only place where they will be available.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse