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Apple Pressed by India to Pre-Install Government Apps on iPhones (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 19 hours 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] 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't see it necessarely as a bad thing. I would rather have my gov id app (for taxes, id and driving licence, public services info) on my phone when i buy it, rather than candy crush and other fucking bloatware. I think it would also help a lot of non-tech savy users set up their phones quickly.

Second of all, gov ID apps having their own store on the side is good. Them being only available on google's store makes it so that if you want to access public services from your state you have to go through google (?), it is clearly not acceptable by a government standpoint, It is even worse than a monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So you want apple to help pre installing something so you didn't depend on Apple when users actually want to use the app. Can you tell me how this makes sense?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Its not about nicely asking apple for "help" pre installing some apps, it is forcing them to open up the os to different software sources.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

I would rather have my gov id app

I'd rather have none of that. Give me basic system apps and an app store, and I'll handle the rest.

If an org wants stuff pre-installed, there should be an option for rolling out a batch of app installs when issuing a new device (probably exists?). Outside of that, leave the base install as bare as possible, and give me an option to import everything from my old device (exists).