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.
I think Apple would pull out of India before they’d cave to this.
Apple will do whatever is profitable. Corporations don’t have ethics.
Yep. Late-stage capitalism incentivizes and rewards unethical behavior.
They’re pretty happy to comply with censorship in China though.
I don’t know why you’d think that? Apple is a publicly traded company that ultimately cares about profit and nothing else.
They already comply with a bunch of stuff in China and other places, why would India be any different?
To my knowledge, they don’t preload non-Apple apps on any country, including the full fascist ones.
Doesn’t Facebook come preinstalled on iphones? That should be their #1 advertising angle
It does not come pre-installed