• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Oh I’m sure there will be. It will be technically difficult (but not impossible) for them to allow other app-stores and sideloading but have the hardware and software be different enough in both markets to not have some slip through.

      I suspect there will be lots of hacky shit for this.

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        9 months ago

        I remember that there was an identifier based on model number. FaceTime wasn’t allowed in the Middle East for a while, there was a way to tell if the model will support it based on the last character after the / in the model number. Middle East models won’t even have the app at all.

        Propably they’ll do the same for models sold in the EU.

        There are already hardware variants of the same iPhone. I think the US gets an iPhone with all eSIM, and China has two physical SIM slots.

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            9 months ago

            No idea. Could be encryption or to protect telecom companies interests, WiFi calling means bundles need to change.

            Most providers are government owned.

            Edit: WhatsApp calling is still blocked in the GCC. Users there mostly use Snapchat as an alternative.

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        9 months ago

        I’m sure it will be and I’m also sure Apple will do EVERYTHING to make it almost imposible to do that. They may also block users from using their iPhones if they discover that they are set to EU, but they are actually not in EU.

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      9 months ago

      Literally all I had to do to make my phone have a usable performance again was to set the region to France, and the language to English. I should add that it was totally fine before an update.

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      9 months ago

      That is just in EU right? So Switzerland (in the center of Europe) won’t have that? Interesting…