NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - From McDonald’s and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, U.S.-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters stoke anti-American sentiment to protest against U.S. tariffs.
India, the world’s most populous nation, is a key market for American brands that have rapidly expanded to target a growing base of affluent consumers, many of whom remain infatuated with international labels seen as symbols of moving up in life.
india uses google Android or apple ios as their primary computing platform, created by US-companies exclusively. And they can not afford hardware for alternative operating systems? How many indians use Linux?
Do it. Fuck the Orange Jackass.
I do not think they can ditch Whatsapp. it is very popular in India
What non-American alternative is there anyway? Only SimpleX comes to mind. Which I sadly don’t see getting widely adopted.
Tiktok was also very popular, until it wasn’t anymore.
I don’t use Tiktok, nor am I from India, so I’m clueless on this topic. What happened to the app over there?
Got banned due to worsening India-China relations.
it’s still alive, but it got captured by american/isreali control
TikTok is officially banned in India. (People still use it, but you can’t download it from Play Store.)
how do they get updates?
Not sure, I never used it. I’m guessing either VPN, one of the apk download sites, or a TikTok mirror running on browser.
So is Telegram, and it’s actually better for a lot of things, but it is stereotyped as being meant for movie sharing.
