India binned made-in-Singapore app in latest round of China bans

India's latest round of bans on Chinese apps has taken down a Singaporean company's apps – and share price – reportedly leaving government officials asking some pointed questions. India has banned hundreds of apps the government alleges are controlled by Chinese companies, send data to China, or use infrastructure located in …

[Anonymous Coward]

Well...

Why doesn't the company just use servers in India? That's pretty much what the Indian government wants.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a jungle out there

"a notorious market rife with counterfeit kit", like Amazon?

Was looking for portable HDD and kept coming across 'sponsored' 10TB drives that all looked the same. Let's see reviews for some of them: "This is another well written album for Nam Nation!", "These wine glasses are so mf beautiful!!!!!", "Bought these glasses because I wanted glasses with an iridescent quality.", "why are all the reviews for truck tail lights?"

Brand name? You betcha "Agfddassd", "Uiklegssd", "Kdkfdfssd", "KIMLOUUY"

And yes, the older 'products' also have at least some reviews saying "this is a scam". And today, *newer* 'products' are now saying 16TB. This scam going on since at least 2019.

And some here might remember the thumb drive size scams from years ago as precedent, so not a shocker to the industry.

Amazon is notorious now?