[ribrars]

The optics are different.

Blizzard took away the winnings from one of their own loyal / hard working gamers, whom other gamers are sympathetic to as it could have been "them". This was a public forum with a specific person who seemingly did nothing wrong being punished unfairly, leading to the controversy were seeing.

Apple just removed some apps that people in the west weren't really using that much. More anonymous and somewhat blameless, a-lot of people aren't app developers and can't relate to that experience.

[ryanlol]

>Apple just removed some apps that people in the west weren't really using that much

HKers didn't really care either, those who had installed the app still have it on their phones and the rest have no trouble accessing the same information from tens of other sources.

[chippy]

Not many had it on their phones - it was only able to be installed by anyone for a few days because previous attempts at app store approval were rejected.

[ryanlol]

In the end nobody was prevented from accessing the map on https://hkmap.live/