"However the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury puts blocks on this market. According to Techrasa, Apple has sent the following to Iranian startups attempting to upload apps:
“Unfortunately, there is no App Store available for the territory of Iran. Additionally, apps facilitating transactions for businesses or entities based in Iran may not comply with the Iranian Transactions Sanctions Regulations (31CFR Part 560) when hosted on the App Store. For these reasons, we are unable to accept your application at this time. We encourage you to resubmit your application once international trade laws are revised to allow this functionality.”
"While there is no official App Store available for the territory of Iran, many companies registered their apps as being outside of Iran to be able to get onto the store."
Also - a lot of bills are introduced that have no chance of passing. If it's coming from Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnel - then it's likely primary GOP policy, outside of that there are tons of things that nobody votes for.
Apple I think will comply with whatever laws the are legally bound by.
Since it's not law, I don't think that it's the issue here.
I don't see Apple doing anything pre-emptively, or as a favour to any politically partisan group.
I suspect there is either a misunderstanding, or we don't have the whole story.
I suspect it's the law directly referred to in the article: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/560.204
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4669004/google-opens-play-...
I wonder what exactly is going on. Trump administration looking for ways to put pressure on Apple?
Don't believe me? See TechCrunch absurdities written by Megan Rose Dickey who is a self proclaimed reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice. How she still has a job is beyond me. If this were the other way around, a white male writing like she does he would be blasted as a sexist, and racist and socially shamed into oblivion.
- Dear White People, You Suck At Diversity (https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/13/dear-white-people-you-suck...)
- Twitter doesn’t have quite as many white employees as it did last year (https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/twitter-doesnt-have-quite-...)
- GitHub’s diversity is just as bad as the rest of Silicon Valley’s (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/githubs-diversity-is-just-...)
At this rate, she'll never be fired.
The parent is a troll. Your time is better spent educating yourself than educating the parent.
