A long way for ‘desi’ dream: Inside story of Indian app store and fight against Google

The government may have provided tacit support to Indian players like Paytm to create an India app store to challenge the monopoly of the likes of Google, but analysts tracking the sector maintain that such support is unlikely to be of much help to local players.

There are two reasons for this – one, players like Google and Apple have their own operating system which makes their app stores attractive to consumers and thus helps them create scales. The local players will always be handicapped in fighting global tech majors on this front in the absence of an operating system.