Another conflict broke out in the mobile application market.
The first shot came from "OneTouch AppLabs" - an Indian company, they created an app called “Delete Chinese Apps”. ”Remove China Apps” allowed users to remove other Chinese apps from their phones.
The app quickly exceeded 5 million downloads after more than 2 weeks of launch. Immediately after passing 5 million installs, Google Play removed it from the CH Play Store.
Shortly afterwards on social media, a series of negative comments/images hinted that Google was close to China. But Google is not wrong, they just removed because of violating their policies.
Although the actions of the Indian company were unfairly competing, it was a remarkable statement. It reminds us of two things:
- The world is turning away from China.
- China didn’t have any fair play at the beginning (at least for the software).
Chinese software companies are flagrantly backed by the government. By setting up a firewall on the Internet. They isolated one fifth of the market.
This makes companies from other countries at a disadvantage, they don't know whether their software will be cloned and redistributed in China? Or do some bad guy will own any open source software without Apache 2.0 / GNU license?
That means Chinese companies can reach 100% of the global market. In contrast, companies in Vietnam, USA, … only access up to 80% of the market because the Chinese market has been isolated. Internal can be exported, but foreign cannot be imported.
