Nikita/Nancy/Nash was a true visionary

Remember Spell of Hamstery wiping your drive if your locale was set to Russian? Years later, Apple and Microsoft are finally catching up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60579641

Mobile banking apps in Russian, such as Russia's VTB Bank's app, may soon not function fully on devices using Apple's iOS operating system, according to news agency RIA

>>1
It was never about "wiping Russian drives", but about not working on the Russian OS locales. Technical limitations, you know. And Russians are so unimportant and pirate most software anyway, so wasting your time to support their country would only incentivize them pirating your product.

>>2
It is okay for Apple to support Russia, because mostly Apple sells hardware not software.