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Apple Pressed by India to Pre-Install Government Apps on iPhones (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The push comes as India seeks greater regulatory control over global tech companies. The initiative would require manufacturers to include the government's GOV.in app store and related apps like BHIM, DigiLocker, VoterID on smartphones sold from India.

Beyond pre-installation, they also requested that their apps be available for download outside the company's app stores from third-party sources without triggering "untrusted source" warnings.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia already has a norm to show “Russian apps” the first time activating an iPhone or iPad, so that ship has sailed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ship hasn't sailed; the more countries you let do that, the more problematic the precedent becomes. This isn't a binary thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It really should be a binary thing. Company policy should be to ship the same, base OS to every customer in every country, and the only differences would be configuration for things like which radio bands to activate.