# App Store
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China’s Tech Tightening: Kuaishou Hit with Rmb119m Fine as App-Store Blitzes and Supply Squeezes Reshape the Sector
Beijing’s Cyberspace Administration fined Kuaishou Rmb119.1 million for failures in curbing pornographic content, prompting an apology and a pledged overhaul of internal controls. The same day, Alibaba’s Qianwen app topped Apple’s free chart after an enormous milk‑tea giveaway, illustrating the collision between viral user‑acquisition tactics and intensifying regulatory and platform oversight.
Tiny Fonts, Big Fees: How Mobile Apps Are Quietly Draining China’s Elderly of Pensions
A wave of mobile apps in China is using deceptive design and opaque billing to extract small, repeated payments from elderly users, often hiding the true price behind small, pale fonts, “free” insurance pitches and automatic subscription switches. Legal and platform gaps — including weak pre-listing reviews, disputed intermediary liability and limited refund pathways through app stores — make recovery difficult and keep these practices profitable.
Apple Services Disrupted: App Store, Apple TV and iTunes Hit by Ongoing Outage
Apple reported an ongoing outage affecting the App Store, Apple TV and iTunes, with knock-on problems for Photos, iMessage and iCloud iWork. The disruption highlights operational and reputational risks for Apple and immediate economic consequences for developers and content providers.