Taking preemptive action to derail their economic recovery.
Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
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Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#42What is their aim by having an alternate app store? Maybe make the manufacturers install it by default as a system app with all the permissions enabled by default? It'd be pretty easy to have a control over what people are seeing or using if so. It's just guess work but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the idea.
It might be because of the following:
"Narendra Modi ‘wants state apps installed’ on new phones"
Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/narendra-modi-wants-state...
> India is said to be considering a plan to make it mandatory for almost all new mobile phones to have government software pre-installed, raising the prospect of the state being able to closely monitor citizens.
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s possible Apple won’t have a choice if they want to sell phones in India. India is a huge and growing market, I’m not sure Apple can afford to give that up...
I’m not sure Apple cares much about the market in India and would pull out of India before opening up the App Store. This won’t be popular. I know plenty of my Indian colleagues who buy and bring home Apple devices for their friends and family. People will just start smuggling the devices in if they have to.
Smuggling won't do you any good when local companies stop making iPhone apps.
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#44It will be a special kind of joy for small developers to publish their apps on a billion stores each with its own regulations.
That's a bit exaggerated I think , you would get just "One Side Store" Per country or Region. That would be such a big victory. Personally I would not complain about the bureaucratic overhead.
It'd create a new middle layer of distributors to handle the bureaucracy... like with music and streaming.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other than the Pixel line I don't know why we'd expect Google to block this. There's already alternative app stores preloaded on many Android phones. To my mind this will be a fight against Apple
The pixel line is the only line Google preinstalls anything on. Either the journalist or the negotiator doesn't understand Android or is pushing harder than they need to, or they see sideloading (bad UX) as not sufficient as an antitrust measure.
Well, Google could made it via licensing.
When OEMs install Google service and other apps required to install Play store, they need a license from Google.
Look at custom ROMs not bundling Gapps (Google apps) because they do not have the license from Google to pre-install and ask you to install from open gapps.
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#46Ok maybe the Indian govt can force Android phone manufacturers to pre install it's app store, how is this going to play out on iPhones? Are we going to see a ban on iPhones in India?
Apple has a history of complying with government requests. They opened up NFC stack when UK requested it. Added SMS spam reporting integration with TRAI in India. And all the changes they do for complying with PRC
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#47It will be a special kind of joy for small developers to publish their apps on a billion stores each with its own regulations.
... or they could just create a PWA and publish it on the free and open web and have the app be available globally in 40s w/o any regulations or artificial restrictions.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure Apple cares much about the market in India and would pull out of India before opening up the App Store. This won’t be popular. I know plenty of my Indian colleagues who buy and bring home Apple devices for their friends and family. People will just start smuggling the devices in if they have to.
Smuggling won't do you any good when local companies stop making iPhone apps.
It doesn't work like that. iPhones weren't sold officially in Argentina for many years, but still there are many local iOS apps. There are many iPhones and most importantly, the wealthiest people generally have iPhones.
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#49India has a following issue with Android ecosystem, almost everything not owned by Google, is owned by some Chinese co.
GetJar - sold to Chinese
PayTM - Chinese shareholder
Flipcart - Chinese shareholder
Zomato, swiggy, + 10+ others online delivery/logistics apps. Some used to be reskins of Chinese apps. Some only have Indian C-levels.
20 something messengers - all except FB, and Twiter are Chinese
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I believe they quickly realised that to ban Chinese apps, they have to ban a lion share of apps in daily use, and here this app store comes.
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P.S. As I understand, a huge amount of Android phones in the third world doesn't have Google App store pre-installed, as manufacturers don't bother to go through arduous Google certification for low end phones, or provide OTA updates. This is why things like GetJar are still a thing there.
Re: Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
#50It will be a special kind of joy for small developers to publish their apps on a billion stores each with its own regulations.
i guess there's a right number. I love the idea of having an alternate solution to reach your market whenever you don't want to comply with apple or google guidelines for some reason