Top marks
...for the Louis Renault homage.
Apple has reportedly kicked off a mass removal of illegal lottery and gambling apps from the China version of its iOS App Store. Multiple reports indicate that the Cupertino phone seller has had to purge roughly 25,000 apps from the localized version of the store it offers on the Chinese mainland. Apple, per usual, did not …
Kinda their own fault at this point. The have hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, there is nothing stopping them from using some of it to build a factory in a country that isn't rife with human rights violations led by a pudgy wanna-be dictator. Or China...
Can we have that here too? I am so tired of seeing ad after ad for yet another bullshit 'slot machine' bit of shovel-ware (And of course the ad is also designed so the exit button is ridiculously easy to miss, so you end up on the store page for the shitty thing)...
"And while we're grumbling about gambling...Can we also get rid of damn loot boxes in games. As if buying the game isn't expensive enough."
+ This article on iOS App store where most games and gambling apps are Free to Play
= Paying $0 is still too expensive
What am I reading.
Chinese state media had reported the apps were pulled after users claimed they were being scammed out of money.
First rule of gambling: "The house never loses".
The second rule: "See rule number 1."
China shouldn't go after the messenger (Apple in this case) but the ones who are marketing it and profiting from it. But then, Apples the easy target because "not Chinese".
I wonder if the phones made by Chinese companies for the Chinese market are having this problem?
First rule of gambling: "The house never loses".
Not so. I have known plenty of bookmakers to go under owing me money.
Secondly, just because the house 'never' loses it doesn't equate to the wise punter never winning in the longer which is never considered when people reel off this tripe.
One has to consider the house as being the broker and that one is actually competing against the other punters. So, considering that the house is the broker it should never be the case (but sometimes is) that the house never loses. When one is punting one has to make sure that the odds are in your favour and the other punters' odds aren't.
We could have used a byline photo of him in his French police captain's uniform. After all, he was the one who was first shocked to find out that there is gambling going on at this establishment.
(Paris--because I heard somewhere that we'll always have her.)