India Bans 118 Apps, Including PUBG Mobile

[Ramchi]

They can't really afford to. The Chinese are running the Indian economy online and offline. They serve as the technological and financial backbone.

Indian GDP so far this year is around negative 25%, worst in the world.

Chinese running the economy because it was Italian bartender drove the country in mortgaging its interest to Chinese for a few hundred billion cut in an European Secret Bank Account!

But thank God now we are doing far better as we slowly but steadilytrying to be self reliant!

btw, don’t report the GDP like failed The Hindu news paper (since no one buying that Chinese news paper printing in India 🤣🤣🤣) -29% not for the year, only for a quarter during lock-down 🤣🤣🤣

 

[dannys1]

Please post some balanced views instead of far leftist drivel.

Did you really just call the Financial Times "Far leftist" - dear lord, there is no hope.

 

[incoherent_1]

This is not the way to do it, banning Apps is way to time-consuming for government bodies, a better way is to make laws that forbid data mining, or what I prefer, a law that says all your Data is yours, there should be a central place that you could go to to delete all your data that is mined.

It's time for the Internet to change, my data is mine, it should be possible to not share any data if you opt for that.

*This is just political, as with the states banning Apps.

While I agree there are far better solutions in an ideal world or in wealthier countries, this becomes challenging in a place like India where the government struggles with basics — for example, right now they’re fighting and working hard to remove open pit toilets because too many young children fall through and drown.

In a reality like that the only tenable solution is to ban them outright. Hopefully, one day, every free country will have data protection & privacy laws and the means to enforce them and root out bad actors.

 

[Jimmy James]

Oh come on. You know that's not true. They never said there would be no apps or App Store. The iPhone launched with apps! But the platform did not yet support developers... that took a bit longer, because it was a brand new venture, new technology.

No, he really did say he didn’t want third party apps.

 

[DoctorTech]

Agreed with the sentiment on the privacy matter. Here on macrumors someone introduced the phrase: “saying that losing privacy is ok because I got nothing to hide is similar to saying that losing free speech is ok because I got nothing to say”.

Nevertheless, in this case, I don’t know much about an actual underlying agenda... India has run things like demolition of houses, genital sterilization campaigns for poor men and other politically driven decisions for perceived Estate threats and emergencies.

Wow. I have not really followed things going on in India and had not heard about things you just mentioned. My comment was only pertaining to their actions on privacy.

 

[DoctorTech]

This is not the way to do it, banning Apps is way to time-consuming for government bodies, a better way is to make laws that forbid data mining, or what I prefer, a law that says all your Data is yours, there should be a central place that you could go to to delete all your data that is mined.

It's time for the Internet to change, my data is mine, it should be possible to not share any data if you opt for that.

*This is just political, as with the states banning Apps.

I completely agree that laws prohibiting data aggregation and laws implementing some form of a "right to be forgotten" legislation would be much better. However, until we get to that point, I still view banning apps known to harvest info as a step in the right direction (even if the ban is implemented for political reasons). Good legislation takes effort, especially legislation pertaining to emerging technology which changes much faster than any legislative body can keep up with.

Back in the 1990s, Indiana passed a law regarding the use of "hidden video cameras". The INTENT of the law was to prevent landlords and tanning salon owners (among others) from hiding small video recorders in places where they could record people without their knowledge, possibly while undressed. A recent incident in Indiana at that time involved a landlord that had placed a video cassette recorder behind a 1 way mirror in the bathroom of an apartment they rented to a female college student. However, the first draft of the legislation would have had the unintended consequence of making it illegal for investigative journalists to video record politicians participating in illegal activities because they would have been recorded without their knowledge and consent. The language eventually passed into law made it illegal to video record anyone where the person had a "reasonable expectation of privacy" (i.e. in a locker room at a gym, in a changing room at a clothing store, or in a restroom or shower). The law was intentionally left vague so that a jury could decide if any given set of circumstances should be considered "reasonable".

The biggest obstacle to passing good privacy legislation is there is a very powerful industry that is fighting to prevent such legislation from getting passed and both major political parties seem to be afraid challenge them.

 

[ericwn]

Apple loves to partnership with countries with shady behaviors, ethical and human rights issues.
Say "Hello" to your "Made in India" iPhone 12 or 12s.

It’s an American company so that’s not surprising. Third world production facilities are cheaper than their second world home turf.

 

[ericwn]

It is all a lie. Steve Jobs originally said there would be no apps, because you could build rich websites. Installer.app and Cydia popped up, because people wanted apps instead of websites. After that, Apple announced they would add an App Store a year later. This was all about locking out the original app stores so Apple could make their own App Store.

We can of course only speculate but it’s very likely that they had the App Store figured out a long time ago, as it’s just a modification of the iTunes Store at that time. Change product type, done. It just wasn’t ready or planned for a later launch.

Of course Steve would not announce something that wasn’t ready for prime time, he was clever. The ahead of release reveals that Apple tried after his passing weren’t successful, see Homepod, that charging mat, the can shaped Mac Pro etc.

 

[ericwn]

Nice.

Yuri Bezmenov the KGB defector in the new Call of Duty spoke about how data was being collected on Indian citizens so that in case of Soviet invasion the Red Army would know who to arrest or murder first.

That’s why spyware and data collection is a massive danger.

And of course to protect the users’ privacy, in the first place.

 

[ericwn]

India will lose this battle. Let me tell you that.

What battle?

 

[ericwn]

Please post some balanced views instead of far leftist drivel.

Please post some yourself and cut the name calling.

 

[ericwn]

Damn straight - why Apple even built their spaceship headquarters in a country with shady behaviors, ethical and human rights issues. When are they going to fix that?

Guess they’ll just fly it elsewhere when the bleach drinkers get too loud.

 

[ericwn]

Did you really just call the Financial Times "Far leftist" - dear lord, there is no hope.

Yeah, some disqualify themselves so easily, it’s unbelievable.

 

[ericwn]

No, he really did say he didn’t want third party apps.

He also wrote specifically that Apple won’t do a video iPod, then went ahead and released one.
At least he understood that changing your mind can have positive benefits at times.