I must have missed this one among... you know, everything. What happened with Apple?

Heh you're interacting with the author. The "last week" is the family emergency from the article

(I had the same thought as you at first :)

And you couldn’t go to the website?

Geofencing is not exclusive to Apple. Not even to native mobile apps. As you likely already known :)

While the submission does make an important point, it seems a bit obfuscated by accusing Apple exclusively.

Seems like main benefit of the side-loading was bypassing the geofence.

And while native apps provide heavier geo-attribution (thus, probably harder to fake), I'm not sure if this is solely an Android vs Apple thing.

You're replying to the author - they're referring to their blog post.

Well, color me stupid. Thanks.

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