The makers of Remove China Apps said that it wasn’t aimed to “promote or force people to uninstall any of the application(s)”.
Remove China Apps gained huge popularity soon after it came into limelight last week
HIGHLIGHTS
Remove China Apps was meant to uninstall Chinese apps from Android phones
Google Play has suspended the app
Google said it violated deceptive behavior policy
Remove China Apps has been pulled from Google Play. According to Google's Deceptive Behaviour rules, an app cannot encourage users to remove third party apps, and do it was suspended, as the app was designed to help users uninstall Chinese apps from their Android smartphones. It was published on Google Play on May 17, and came into the limelight last week. The Remove China Apps even emerged as the top trending app on Google Play and crossed over 50 lakh downloads.
The app notably came to its existence at a time when anti-China sentiment is at peak in the country, for reasons including the coronavirus outbreak and India-China border dispute.
This is the second high profile app to be removed from the Google Play store this week. Just a few hours before Remove China Apps was removed, the Mitron app was also removed from the store. The app was removed for violating the store policies, after surging past 50 lakh downloads fuelled by anti-China sentiments.
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Remove China apps had a literal field day in India soon after launch owing to the ongoing wave of strong anti-China sentiment that’s blowing across the country.
Remove China apps
Remove China apps, an app that let you find and delete made in China apps from your Android phones, has been pulled from the Google Play Store. Google has suspended Remove China apps for allegedly violating its deceptive behaviour policy. “We don’t allow apps that attempt to deceive users or enable dishonest behavior including but not limited to apps which are determined to be functionally impossible,” the policy reads.
Google’s Play Store policy clearly states that all apps must provide “an accurate disclosure, description and images/video of their functionality in all parts of the metadata and should perform as reasonably expected by the user.” Also, “any changes to device settings must be made with the user’s knowledge and consent and be easily reversible by the user.”
It isn’t immediately clear which part(s) of the policy Remove China apps was caught violating before it was taken down from the Google Play Store.
Makers of the app, home grown company OneTouch AppLabs, launched Remove China apps in mid-May. The app was designed to identify the country of origin of apps installed on your Android smartphone and also as an added extra, delete them all in one go, should you want to.
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