[Jiejeing]

iOS only has high market share in the US, even in other, similarly rich western countries, Android dominates.

Additionally, iOS prevents you from keeping a background connection, which means anything else than polling or (apple-controled) push notification is a no go. Briar mostly works through Tor, which cannot work properly on standard iOS, due to the previously described limitations.

If you want software on iOS, complain to apple about their dumb policies, not on HN comment threads.

[teorema]

Yes, here you have Briar bumping up against the inability to run any fully decentralized mobile communication software on iOS. Seems like a serious limitation on the part of iOS at this point given trends towards decentralization in general.

[Jiejeing]

The worst part is that an inactive background TCP connection is mostly free (of course, a Tor client is slightly more involved), so there is exactly 0 reason to forbid it, as long as apps are reviewed properly for abusive behavior (they are not).