Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cageface 3115 days ago
You need to be able to pay from a US credit card in order to buy anything from the US store. Which is out of the reach of ordinary Chinese. I often help my Vietnamese friends buy apps from the US app store for the same reason.
1 comments

Yes, but for the free apps it doesn’t matter; it really is something that is useful. Most ordinary Chinese aren’t going to be interested in those apps anyways, like they wouldn’t be interested in side loading.