![]() It could only access content that was not concurrently blocked by a browser in China. Like Fiery Feeds, the Reeder iOS app could be used in China without a VPN. Reeder’s fourth edition had a total 100,000 downloads in China, with between 100 and 300 daily downloads in the weeks before the ban, the app’s developer Silvio Rizzi told TechCrunch. “It seems comes from the Chinese government, so I do not see any use in appealing to Apple,” said a spokesperson at Fiery Feeds. Apple could not be immediately reached for comment. Its iOS version was available in China without the use of a VPN, though some of the synced services it supported were blocked. Prior to its ban, Fiery Feeds had about 1,000 monthly active users in China, it told TechCrunch. The latest incidents could well be part of Apple’s business-as-usual in China: cleaning up foreign information services operating outside Beijing’s purview, regardless of their reach. ![]() The history of China’s crackdown on RSS dates back to 2007 when the authority launched a blanket ban on web-based RSS feed aggregators. Feedly is also unavailable through the local App Store. Inoreader, a similar service, was banned from Apple’s Chinese App Store back in 2017. Major political events and regulatory changes can trigger new waves of app removals, but it’s unclear why the two RSS feed readers were pulled this week. Those who use RSS readers in China are scarce, as the majority of China’s internet users - 940 million as of late - receive their dose of news through domestic services, from algorithmic news aggregators such as ByteDance’s Toutiao and WeChat’s built-in content subscription feature to apps of mainstream local outlets. Feed readers of RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, are particularly troubling to the authority because they fetch content from third-party websites, allowing users to bypass China’s Great Firewall and reach otherwise forbidden information, though users have reported not all RSS apps can circumvent the elaborate censorship system. Two RSS reader apps, Reeder and Fiery Feeds, said this week that their iOS apps have been removed in China over content that deemed “illegal” by the local cyber watchdog.Īpps get banned in China for all sorts of reasons. I keep hearing good things about Reeder but I have not used it myself.It looks like Apple is scouring its Chinese App Store for any remaining services that may not sit well with Chinese censors. It’s times like this that I regret that Apple-only apps don’t get much attention on this blog. If you’re looking for an iPad news reader app then this is probably worth checking out. The iPhone app also supports Fever and Readability integration, lots of sharing options, and other features that will be showing up in the iPad and OSX apps in the next few months.īTW, the OSX and iPad apps will be available for free (until they get those updates). ![]() Right now the iPad and OSX versions of Reeder require Google Reader, but the iPhone app does not. ![]() One of the new features they plan to add support for other RSS services (besides Google Reader). Instead they plan to continue to work on the app and add new features. The developers behind the Reeder news reader app announced today that their app was not going to die with Google Reader in 3 months. Reeder for iOS and OSX to Break Free of Google Reader
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