Russia mandates locally made apps on mobile devices

John Yunker
2 min readApr 2, 2021

What was for many years a threat has now become a reality — a Russian law requiring mobile phone manufacturers to ship with preinstalled Russian-made apps (or allow them to be easily installed).

It appears that Apple updated its onboarding flow to do just that, as seen here:

Ah looks like the Russia App Store thing is live now

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John Yunker

Web globalization expert, UX/PX researcher, co-founder of Byte Level Research and Ashland Creek Press.