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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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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

In addition to BHIM, there are lot of third party apps for UPI.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Also true. Its an open standard as far as I can tell.

[-] astro_ray@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

True. Not completely open I guess...

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Especially with finance related stuff like this, its very crucial that such regulations exist. You're right.

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