Google Play has the largest app portfolio with over 2.7 million total apps (a 5.85 per cent increase compared to the previous quarter), ahead of the App Store's 1.82 million apps.
Paytm is aiming for a million apps on its 'mini-app store' before March 2022 as it looks to challenge Google's dominance in the country's mobile app business.
The move to launch an Indian app store is aimed to promote the 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' vision and provide people with a local and sustainable app ecosystem.
Like Apple, Google also collects a 30 per cent commission on in-app purchases. For developers, Google Play's billing system provides an easy way for billions of Android users to transact with them using their local, preferred method of payment.
Facebook last month launched a new ability for businesses, creators, educators and media publishers to earn money from online events on its platform
Facebook's Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple in July appeared before a US Congress panel that looked into these companies' market domination online.
The 118 Chinese apps have been banned as they allegedly hampered the security and privacy of the users and even stole users' data to send the data to servers outside of India.
As Epic Games fights a legal battle with Apple for removing the Fortnite game from App Store, its CEO Tim Sweeney took a jab at the Cupertino, California-based tech giant, promoting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile on App Store.
Apple has removed the account of Epic Games from its App Store amid the legal battle with the Fortnite game developer.
Apple had threatened to terminate Epic Games' developer account by August 28 which would cut the company off from iOS and macOS development tools.
After its removal from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, Epic Games is set to launch the Chapter 2 Season 4 of Fortnite game with a new Marvel theme on August 27.
Soon after Apple removed the popular video game Fortnite from its App Store for allegedly violating in-app payment guidelines, Epic Games has announced a free Fortnite tournament on August 23 where players can compete to win anti-Apple prizes.
Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools.
The US administration's action against the Chinese behemoths like ByteDance (TikTok) and Tencent (WeChat) has fueled a new war between the two nations. The Donald Trump administration has also tightened restrictions on Chinese conglomerate Huawei.
Fornite even released a video called the 'Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite #FreeFortnite' mocking Apple's famous 1984 ad, calling the company out for its unfair practices, and asking people to support it in its fight against Apple.
After banning major Chinese apps, including TikTok, UC Browser, the Centre has blocked Baidu Search and Weibo apps - the most influential apps of China and dubbed as the country’s answer to Google search and Twitter respectively, in India.
The Indian Government banned 59 Chinese apps on June 29 (including TikTok, UC Browser, Beauty Plus, ShareIt, CamScanner, and more) due to security and privacy issues.
Zoom app has broken Chinese short video making app TikTok's record of most downloaded app on Apple App Store.
Apple has removed at least 4,500 games from China's App Store under the pressure from the Chinese government to comply with its Internet policies.
China is Apple's biggest App Store market. Apple currently hosts roughly 60,000 games in China that are paid for or have in-app purchases.
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