| ▲ | alephnerd 6 hours ago | |
China doesn't require pre-installed apps but the Chinese government require all data processing and storage to be conducted within China with complete source code access. India chose to back off on data sovereignty [0] because it would have had a side effect of making Indian IT Offshoring less competitive plus to help make negotiating a US-India BTA easier [1]. [0] - https://verfassungsblog.de/cross-border-data-flows-and-india... [1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-25/us-seeks-... | ||
| ▲ | browningstreet 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> making Indian IT Offshoring less competitive So does a security backdoor in every mobile device used by said Indian offshoring staff. | ||
| ▲ | iancarroll 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I don't think there is any reason to assume they would allow forced code execution just because they allow data residency for mainland accounts. And unfortunately, China is likely a much larger and more profitable consumer market than India - presumably they can still export phones produced inside India without this. | ||
| ▲ | tacker2000 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Most people in China install Wechat by choice, anyway | ||