The Economist wrote about the app buying experience in Cuba:

• Sanctions mean that software companies aren’t allowed to offer most apps to those in Cuba.
• Entrepreneurs have figured out ways to hack the app stores so that they think the person downloading apps is in another country.
• App lovers then drop their phones off at a store, and for $10 can have 70 app installed on them. They delete the ones they don’t want.
• The selection of apps on offer is refreshed monthly.

Read more on The Economist.