What I wish India would do is this: force Chinese phone companies to ship stock Android and full source code. They sell hundreds of millions of phones in India and will have to find middle ground, and the outcome will be good for everyone.
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#32Where is the Indian opposition on this? Are they fully behind Modi's nationalism? There is a raging pandemic. Massive recession. Potential war with China. Internet bans. Crackdown in Kashmir. There has to be some questions?
Lol what questions. If you question them they name you as a terrorist and slam the NSA act on you. 'National security'
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#33It's not exactly clear if the Indian Government has authority enough to do this ban, without presenting concrete evidence, under existing laws. There seems to be no semblance of a due process. As a democratic country India seems to trust its own citizens very less.
Banning or not sufficient case has not been made in the public, only a cryptic communique from the Govt is all.
What exactly was the threat from PUBG, which is not there in other games?
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#34Where is the Indian opposition on this? Are they fully behind Modi's nationalism? There is a raging pandemic. Massive recession. Potential war with China. Internet bans. Crackdown in Kashmir. There has to be some questions?
Perhaps, if you feel strongly you could express your own opposition rather than make very vague statements alluding to...I have no idea, to be honest.
I am not from India - so it doesn't matter what I think. I was asking a question.
I notice from my own country that the power around the sitting government has been strengthened over the COVID-pandemic and the opposition is very weak.
I can only imagine how things would centralise further had my country also been under the threat of war.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they? That hasn't been my experience in Canada but maybe pricing is different in India? Could you point to some specific cheap phones by those companies so I could see if I can find comparable phones by non-Chinese companies?
extra tariffs on iPhones. Look here: https://www.mi.com/in/
At the top of that page is the Redmi 9a for 6,799. Here is a similar phone from samsung for Rs. 6,499.
https://www.91mobiles.com/samsung-galaxy-m01-core-32gb-price...
Re: India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
#36Where is the Indian opposition on this? Are they fully behind Modi's nationalism? There is a raging pandemic. Massive recession. Potential war with China. Internet bans. Crackdown in Kashmir. There has to be some questions?
If it is pure unadulterated nationalism, only one country would not be targeted. It is fair to say, China is a Clear and Present danger to Indian Union and in a war-like state banning games should not be that controversial. You do not want to fund the bullets being shot at your soldiers as much as possible.
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#37Like all other internet bans in India I doubt this one will have any teeth. Everyone has a "Free" VPN app that they use to bypass these restrictions. Most people own Android phones where they can sideload apps downloaded from some third party APK website (of questionable trustworthiness) iPhones have negligible penetration in India so are not even a part of the equation.
It seems reasonable to me that most people would not go to such lengths as sideloading apps or employing a VPN to route around these issues.
You severely underestimate how Indian teens are addicted to PUBG. Kids have spent lakhs of their parents rupees on it. [1]
Some have even dies due to addiction. [2]
[1]- https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2020/aug/17/pu...
[2] - https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/16-year-old-addicted-to-pubg...
There are many more. I just gave a single example.
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#38sigh. Instead of this immense opportunity to see the rise of open source community where EVERYONE is welcome to contribute and make better software, the government is somehow pushing towards making homegrown ad ridden closed source clones of popular ad ridden closed source Chinese apps. Yucks
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps, if you feel strongly you could express your own opposition rather than make very vague statements alluding to...I have no idea, to be honest.
I am not from India - so it doesn't matter what I think. I was asking a question. I notice from my own country that the power around the sitting government has been strengthened over the COVID-pandemic and the opposition is very weak. I can only imagine how things would centralise further had my country also been under the threat of war.
Defense and Communications have been Central portfolio since 1950 in India. There is no centralization of power happening, and there is no state that is protesting the current banning of apps.
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#40I appreciate the sentiment of having more domestic alternatives and competition but there's an insignificant amount of work here. Indie developers and studios won't start making apps and games for India unless they can sustain themselves. That is hard. I expect bigger companies such as jio to take lion's share and have a default monopoly at this point. > India has emerged as the fastest growing app market in the worl…
Jio unfortunately blatantly copies western apps and adds a 'Made in India' tag. Therefore people think it is patriotic to use it. They copied Whatsapp but removed the end to end encryption. They copied Zoom and removed the decent security. They copied amazon and started JioMart, whose apps look exactly the same. Am waiting for them to start Jioogle, as an alternative search engine.
The things is, that's kind of how it starts.
First you copy badly, then you copy well, then you improve.
Baby steps.