After India banned 59 Chinese apps, including popular ones like TikTok and Shareit, Indian developers believe that Made In India apps will now get a chance to succeed.
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India on Monday evening banned 59 Chinese apps, including popular apps like TikTok.
Indian app developers and entrepreneurs welcome the move.
Indian apps will now get a fair chance at success, say Indian developers.
As the government banned 59 Chinese apps in the country, a wave of happiness came over the Indian tech startup community. Technology startups believe this will open new avenues for them.
IITian Sharad Shankar, who studied from IIT Kanpur started his company AndOr Communications in 2015 in December and launched an app LightX Photo Editor in 2018. His app LightX Photo Editor competes with Chinese apps (Beauty Plus, Meitu, Photo Wonder), all of which have been banned by the government.
Their app is an indigenous one built by IITians and an IIM graduate and has 40 million users. Speaking with India Today he said, "Chinese apps flooded the Indian market in 2014-2015 and slowly began capturing the Indian market... Such is the influence of the Chinese players that the top 20 apps in Google Play Store are Chinese apps," he added.
Hailing the government's decision, Sharad said the ban will pave way for Indian tech companies and give them an opportunity to flourish. He added, "Our app used to compete with Chinese apps and now with this ban, we will have an edge over them. The time is ripe for Indian companies to grow and to sell their apps abroad."
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ShareIT, UC browser and shopping app Clubfactory are among other prominent apps which have been banned.
The govt banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on Monday. ShareIT, UC browser and shopping app Clubfactory are among the other prominent apps that have been blocked amid rising tensions between India and China following clashes at the border two weeks ago.
The government said the applications are engaged in activities “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order.” The ban has been imposed under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009, it said. The govt also cited complaints about data on Indian users being transferred abroad without author ..
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