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Android is an open platform by design. So anyone can develop their own app store / app distribution system. Anyone can use Android and customize it for the hardware they develop. But what Google did was secretly bribing the phone manufacturers to preload Google Play services and Google Play store as uninstallable system service and app and make agreements that the manufacturers will never resort to any other app store. They are being punished for this behavior.

In case of apple, their ecosystem is closed, i.e. there’s no competitor by design. Moreover, one can’t legally access iOS without an iPhone. According to Apple, just the physical hardware of an iPhone isn’t a product they sell and shouldn’t be considered as such, instead iPhone(Physical Hardware) + iOS(which includes their app store) is one complete product which they sell. As a manufacturer of this product they are free to do whatever with the product they develop and not necessarily have to provide access to 3rd party in their product development process.

TLDR: Apple’s argument was if there’s no competitor by design then there’s no anti-competitive behavior for the court to judge.

So what will providing proof accomplish anyway?

I don’t agree. Something is better than nothing, even if things are heavily redacted. I as a common man may not interprete them adequately but there are people who can. Especially people from the intelligece community can check and somewhat verify if there is anything plausible with respect to the accusitions. This important for the allies of the Canada too. Canada is a member five eyes, so they can definitely validate their gathered intels with the likes of UK, US if the evidence deemed unfit for public release. So far I have not seen any of those countries conclusively made statements that they validated Canada’s allegations. The investigation is ongoing anyway.

It does not matter whether Indian PM admits it or not if evidence is there and the international community verified and largely accepts it as truth. So far I haven’t seen this happen.

Off course Canada can do whatever they choose in their jurisdiction. For example, many countries creates travel advisory for their citizens regarding which countries are deemed safe / not safe for them to travel to. If country X says that country Y is unsafe for their citizens to travel to, it’s perfectly fine. However, that doesn’t mean country Y is universally unsafe. But, when it comes to international relations we can’t just hurl allegation to another sovereign country without any evidence, independent verification / backing. Because tomorrow country Z can allege something outrageous about country A without evidence, will the international community accept that without questions as well?

Personally I feel diplomacy from both sides have failed us. It’s their job to handle these things more gracefully.

I am a common citizen I literally have no internal knowledge, especially in these top secret national security stuff. As a sane human being what I can say is that incentive to commit the alleged crime is there. That doesn’t necessarily mean we actually did it. And yes as a society currently we are in ultra nationalistic clusterf**k. So public sentiment is there to support this kind nefarious behavior domestically.

It is really unfortunate situation. At one hand it’s foolish to blindly believe anyone (irrespective of their designation county or affiliation) without concrete evidence, especially regarding issues as serious as this. On the other hand I also kinda understand how hard it is to make espionage related evidences publicly available, even for world leaders. In any case, diplomacy from both sides failed us. Knee jerk reactions in international relationship seldom help.

Above all, what I would like to point out is that, this is a kind of situation where nobody wins.

I understand your point of view but don’t you think these things should have been considered thoroughly before going public in this manner? It is only fair to ask for conclusive proof if you accuse something serious like this in public. It is safe to assume all diplomatic effort has been failed from both side. Also as far as I read in the news, the investigation itself is ongoing. Don’t you think all these confusions could have avoided if Canada decided to go public after concluding the investigation? That way India would have very little wiggle room to refute the hard evidence presented.

As an Indian I agree. But I need to see conclusive proof first. I don’t want to see my country degrades itself to the same level as CIA / NSA or Mossad. If we did something wrong there should be adequate consequences.

No, I want them to actually adopt it in parctice rather than creating hype. The reason they fail to do it in large scale is because of lack of people with knowledge of Linux working for the government (including defense). To change that the education sector of the country need to adopt Linux first. Currently only a elite group choosing IT during college gets exposure to Linux. Rest of the mass has no clue what Linux is or how to use it. Only handful of engineers not going to change it, they need real adoption by common people for everyday use.

Take anything from India with a grain of salt. This kind announcement happened in the past but ultimately failed to gain any steam.

UPDATE:

Can’t even stop laughing LMAO 🤣🤣 🤣

Gris

A welcome move. F**k megacorps polluting everything on internet.

Thank you. I’ll donate. Would you consider making it open source? I used to be a fan of Sync and had their one time payment for ultra version. But this current release is subscription only and I don’t want to any subscription. Again thank you. The app is great so far.