The current situation in the United States with the Trump government it is making large companies position themselves on various issues or simply abide by the decisions made by the current government. Although Tim Cook has very different ideas from Trump's, work is constant at Apple to try to keep calm and continue to offer good quality service.
Today we wake up to the news that the App Store is no longer available in Iran. Those users who enter into Iranian territory to the App Store, a message will appear in which it says «The App Store is not available in the region you are in. " Apple has not commented on the matter, but it is speculated that it could have something to do with Trump's latest decisions.
Apple vetoes access to the App Store in Iranian territory
An Apple device without the App Store it's almost nothing, since the diversity of applications available in the store is what gives Life to the terminal to perform a multitude of actions. Today's news is that Iranian users cannot access the Big Apple app store. When they try to access they find a message like the one you see below:
- Saeed Taheri 🇮🇷 (@saeed_taheri) March 15th 2018
The developers are verifying the origin of the crash and have discovered that it could be a IP level blocking since if it is accessed through a VPN service that redirects the signal to another part of the globe if that allows access. The reason for this block is unknown, although it is related to the current legislative policy of the Trump administration, which also prevented a few months ago from uploading content created by Iranian developers to the app store:
Under US sanctions regulations, the App Store cannot host, distribute or conduct business related to apps or developers connected to certain countries embargoed by the US.