Apple and other smartphone makers are being pressed by India to pre-install government-developed apps on devices before sale, echoing a similar 2021...

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.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥English
    7•11 days 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.

    • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
      2•9 days ago

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

      • astro_rayEnglish
        6•9 days 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.

          • @Tangent5280English
            2•8 days 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.

            • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
              2•8 days ago

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