A lot of the hate comes from apple having been a big supporter of the usb-c standard when it was developed, yet they still chose to go the anti-consumer route and stick with lightning for years after they already had a better cable. Now there's landfills of useless lightning cables, while we can still use micro-usb for a lot of other old devices.

I think the confusion might come from a misunderstanding of what the word climate means. Climate is defined as the "long-term pattern of weather" in an area. Cancer isn't really a product of bad climate, and this won't create long term radioactive storms.

I think they were trying to help by providing metadata for you to check against. Not actually sending the APK itself.

Some people have pointed out, that this seems to be a normal vacation policy within Canada. Still a shitty policy, but I wouldn't put the majority blame on LMG for this specific issue.