Apple has forbidden to sell their devices in the Crimea. Russian representation of the corporation shall send the appropriate letters to partners. In December last year, the US announced of the economic blockade of the peninsula and there banned the export of US goods, technologies and services.
One of these letters in his Twitter posted leading analyst Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin. “Apple has maintained sanctions against Russia officially” – he said. The ban takes effect February 1, 2015.
“With reference to section 7″ Obligations in relation to exports of the “Agreement with an authorized dealer of Apple 06.02.14, please be advised that from 1st February 2015 year, according to new sanctions against the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the US government’s December 19, 2014, you agree not to sell Apple products and / or provide services related to Apple products in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea “, – said in a letter Murtazin .
An unnamed source familiar with the situation in an interview with Tass confirmed the authenticity of the letter. Also confirmed the authenticity and representative of Russian retailers indicates RBC .
Earlier, January 17, lock information appeared on the website, “Habrahabr” . “Today, the Crimean developers who used developer.apple.com, blocked,” – says the author of the publication, which published a similar letter from Apple, but in English.
reported , that such letters received and other developer. It was noted that Apple has not only removed all published applications Crimeans and banned the publication of the new, but also blocked the internal accounts that serve to make money from sales in the App Store.
“The money in the accounts of Apple, not previously withdrawn Of course, podvisli “- said one of the developers Maxim Serdyuk. According to him, the company has also blocked the accounts of living in the Crimea content producers to distribute their materials through the iTunes Store (music, videos, and so on). Finally, Serdyuk said that cooperation ceased with everyone who does not live on the peninsula, but have Crimea as a place of residence.
At the same time, Serdyukov said that it plans to continue to distribute their programs in the App Store, just register as a new developer with an address in another state. According to the portal TechCrunch , this method can really help developers overcome entered the lock.
It is worth noting that the developers producing applications for the platform Android, yet continue to work in the usual way and Therefore still have the opportunity to freely publish their products in Google Play.
Let us recall that last week the popular service Steam imposed restrictions for the residents of the Crimea for the purchase of digital content.
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