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Apple Pressed by India to Pre-Install Government Apps on iPhones (www.macrumors.com)
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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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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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?

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

So, no pre installs needed, all they want is what the EU did.

We don't need an article to say that.