From March 1, 2022, manufacturers want to oblige to pre-install on smartphones, gadgets and electronics are four more domestic applications. Mandatory will be the service for listening to music, the application for reading books, an online store and conference service. The relevant amendments to the current government decree developed the Ministry of Fields. About this on Thursday, September 16, writing “Izvestia” with reference to the document.
According to the publication, the department prepared a list of technically complex products on which Russian software should be installed. In this case, the project does not specify the categories of products to which the applications are proposed, as well as the names of the required programs. The newspaper writes that they will be chosen based on the annual rating of their popularity, which is the Ministry of Media.
The press service of the departments published that the expansion of the software list for a mandatory preset to gadgets is carried out in accordance with the decision of the Government Commission on Digital Development.
According to the representative of the Association of Trading Companies and Compacts of Electromete and Computer Machinery Ratek Anton Guskov, the measure will create a serious burden on the industry, and the expansion of the list is fast and unjustified, since the obligation to pre-install the domestic software entered into force six months ago, it is absolutely new and ” Raw “regulation for which there are still many questions.
Earlier in the Ministry of Fields explained the benefit of the law on the mandatory preset of Russian software. According to officials, the preset is part of a strategy aimed at importing and developing Russian digital products. The law on the mandatory preset of the Russian software for smartphones entered into force on April 1.