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Thanks to Google, app store monopoly concerns have now reached India

Thanks to Google, app store monopoly concerns have now reached India

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/20/thanks-to-google-paytm-app-store-monopoly-concerns-have-now-reached-india/

Last week, as Epic Games, Facebook, and Microsoft continued to express concerns about Apple’s “monopolistic” hold over what a billion people can download on their iPhones, a similar story unfolded in India, the world’s second largest internet market, between a giant developer and the operator of the only other large mobile app store.

Google pulled Paytm, the app from India’s most valuable startup, off of the Play Store on Friday. The app returned to the store eight hours later, but the controversy and acrimony Google has stirred up in the country will linger for years.

Thanks to Google, app store monopoly concerns have now reached India

Sep 20, 2020, 10:21pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/20/thanks-to-google-paytm-app-store-monopoly-concerns-have-now-reached-india/ > Last week, as Epic Games, Facebook, and Microsoft continued to express concerns about Apple’s “monopolistic” hold over what a billion people can download on their iPhones, a similar story unfolded in India, the world’s second largest internet market, between a giant developer and the operator of the only other large mobile app store. > Google pulled Paytm, the app from India’s most valuable startup, off of the Play Store on Friday. The app returned to the store eight hours later, but the controversy and acrimony Google has stirred up in the country will linger for years.