These days, a campaign has started to delete anti-Chinese apps from your smartphones. The live example of this is the popularity of apps like 'Remove China Apps' and 'Mitron'. The Mitron app has been launched in the past days as a rivalry for short video making apps TikTok. The app became popular on the Google Play Store soon after launch. It received over 5 million downloads. Not only this, 'Remove China Apps', an app that detects Chinese apps in smartphones, has also become popular among people. The app received over a million downloads on the Google Play Store only a few weeks after its launch.
These apps were removed from the Google Play Store last week. However, later these apps once again returned to the Google Play Store. Google talked about policy violations through these apps. But, do you know, apart from TikTok, there are many such apps which have been downloaded a lot by Indian users? These apps mostly include apps, social media, short video making, entertainment, web browsers, video streaming apps, utility apps, gaming apps and even e-commerce apps.
Looking at the report of App Annie, a website tracking smartphone apps, in December 2017, only 18 of the top-100 apps available on the Google Play Store were Chinese apps, which reached 44 by December 2018. By the end of 2019, this figure has increased further. Many Chinese apps like TikTok, Helo, Cam Scanner, Kwai, PUBG, Vigo, SHAREit, UC Browser are popular among Indian users. Some of these apps come with Chinese smartphones to install by default. Those users know – inadvertently download it in their smartphones.
