{"id":37400,"date":"2022-10-19T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37400"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:05:15","slug":"apple-restores-vk-and-mail-ru-apps-to-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/19\/apple-restores-vk-and-mail-ru-apps-to-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Restores VK and Mail.ru Apps to the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/10\/18\/apple-restores-russian-vk-apps-app-store\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/10\/18\/apple-restores-russian-vk-apps-app-store\/\"><p>Apple has restored Russian apps for social network VKontakte and webmail provider Mail.ru to the App Store, three weeks after removing them and other VK-owned apps in response to UK sanctions (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/oct\/17\/russia-ukraine-war-live-explosions-heard-in-kyiv-conflict-has-pushed-four-million-children-into-poverty-says-un?page=with:block-634d6c078f083aab73d11597#block-634d6c078f083aab73d11597\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Apple shared the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apps from this developer were removed from the App Store, as required by law, after multiple requests were made to the developer to provide documentation to verify that they were not in violation of UK sanctions. Subsequent to the removal, the developer has provided the requisite information verifying that they are not majority owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity. Thus, the apps have been reinstated to the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like the ownership hasn&rsquo;t changed and that Apple&rsquo;s previous statement was just wrong.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/28\/apple-removes-vk-and-mail-ru-apps-from-the-app-store\/\">Apple Removes VK and Mail.ru Apps From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Apple has restored Russian apps for social network VKontakte and webmail provider Mail.ru to the App Store, three weeks after removing them and other VK-owned apps in response to UK sanctions (via The Guardian).[&#8230;] A spokesperson for Apple shared the following statement: The apps from this developer were removed from the App Store, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-19T16:01:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"c953192f-d9c9-427a-aed5-322e9095f33f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-19T16:05:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyVMZL9nJQnqu1TIukJXzPw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,31,2185,26,1676],"class_list":["post-37400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-russia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37407,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400\/revisions\/37407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}