App delisting can't be permitted: Telecom Minister on Google-Indian startups row

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> “Indian companies will comply – for now. But what India needs is an App Store/ Play Store that is a part of Digital Public Infrastructure – like UPI and ONDC. The response needs to be strategic,” Info Edge founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani had said in a post on Friday ... tagging Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and his office.

That is a neat regulatory idea - make app stores part of the "digital public infrastructure" and remove them from the control of BigTech. Developers will then be free to include whatever payment system they want in their apps, and Google or Apple can charge whatever commission they want only if the app includes their payment system and the consumer of the app opts to use it.

then you come in the clutch of government! Say your political ideologies mismatch with thethey will screw your revenue. Progressive web app is the way forward, user should be allowed to install whatever they wanted to, without any ones control.

You can question and fight your democratically elected government. You can't do the same with an MNC who may have more money than your own country.

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