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Apple Pressed by India to Pre-Install Government Apps on iPhones
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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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I'll be the paragraph guy today.
BHIM stands for BHarat Interface for Money, a payment application that uses India's money transfer protocol called United Payment Interface (UPI). This makes all payments cashless, from ₹1 to ₹1,00,000. No transaction fees, as of yet.
Digilocker is a government document vault app that allows digital copies of documents to be enforced. You don't need to carry around the physical copies, the QR code generated by the app is scanned by specialised scanners that validate the validity of the document and also fetches any relevant records. This includes the Driver's License, Aadhar Card (Indian National Identity Card), PAN Card (Permanent Account Number; used for what is essentially a 2 Factor Authentication system of documents for verification of identity), etc.
Voter ID app is to identify your voting region, and make any changes to the details of your Voter ID.
The Gov.in store is new to me and I don't think I need one more store on my device, but hey... I don't use an iPhone 😄.
Why is all of this not a single app? Idk.
Coming back to the point, I don't mind having important apps like these pre-installed. It helps to have these for people who aren't as technically inclined as you'd hope.
Because they have very different functions though all associated with the government. It's just better to separate apps with different functions.
Thanks for the explanation.
Fair enough. I just wish it were a single super-app since that's more user-friendly. But its fine.
It's an indian government venture. If the scope is too big app updates would be spaced out to every 8 years
True.
In addition to BHIM, there are lot of third party apps for UPI.
Also true. Its an open standard as far as I can tell.
You might think that, but creating a third party app is not comes with a lot of hassles. One needs to get license to access the infrastructure.
True. Not completely open I guess...
Stops a lot of scammers and if some gets through there might be a paper trail to follow and link the accounts involved to real people.
Especially with finance related stuff like this, its very crucial that such regulations exist. You're right.