Apple's switch to HTTPS thwarts Chinese censors

Apple's use of HTTPS for its App Store isn't winning it any friends from the Chinese government.
The company seems to have recently turned on the more secure protocol for its App Store. Before that switch, censors in China could block Chinese users from searching for certain types of apps, such as VPN software, according to Greatfire.org, which monitors Chinese Internet censorship.
Searching for such apps would cause the actual connection to reset, meaning users in China couldn't download them even if they were available in the Chinese App Store.