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Google from its application store has taken down the Indian mobile application ‘Remove Chinese Apps’ that allowed the users to delete all the Chinese apps from their mobile phones and devices since it was in violation of the policies of the company as asserted by a spokesman on 03.06.2020.
The application named, “Remove China Apps”, since late May has become one of the top trending free applications in India on Google’s mobile application store as more than five million downloads were witnessed. The popularity of the same was at its pinnacle as the country called for a boycott of the Chinese mobile applications in India as currently there is an ongoing dispute on the Himalayan border between both the countries.
A Google spokesman simply proclaimed to Reuters that the application has been removed due to certain violations in the application store policies and has not given any further details on the same.
A person familiar with the entire issue has asserted that the software has led to gross violation of Google’s policies by prohibiting applications that can mislead the users and leads them to remove or uninstall or disable third party applications or change the device settings or the concerned features.
The application Remove China Apps works in the following process. Initially, it scans the users' phone or device for Chinese applications such as ByteDance’s TikTok and Alibaba’s UC Browser, etc. Then it deletes the Chinese Applications and then the dialog box appears which pops up the message “You are awesome, no China app found.”
The said application was developed by OneTouch AppLabs, has not responded to the request for comment on such an issue. The website created by them further reflects the message that the ‘application has been removed and thanked the users for their support’.
The Indians in their support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party have used the hashtag #BoycottChineseProducts on the social media platforms asking the Indians to delete such popular Chinese Apps.
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