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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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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think of it as slippery slope, I think of it as setting precedent

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How can it be a precedent of something else entirely?

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