Govt unveils homegrown app ‘Mobile Seva App Store’ to counter google
20 Mar 2021 14:39:25
New Delhi, March 20: Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative to make India Atmnirbhar, India has developed its first indigenously developed App Store called “Mobile Seva Appstore”. Unvailing the app government has indirectly targeted the big tech companies Google and Facebook.
Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad informed this in Upper House during the Question Hours. IT Minister Prasad said in Rajya Sabha that this is going to give the much-needed ‘boost’ for the indigenous app store.
Giving them information about the app he said the app store hosting some 965 live apps of several domains and categories of public services. This Indian App Store will be available for free of cost in the initial phases.
The App Store has been created to provide a hosting platform for Indian mobile application developers. It will be based upon service-oriented architecture and cloud-based technologies. It is a centrally hosted cloud-based mobile platform that allows offering services through mobile devices across India.
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Rajya Sabha that this is developed as an alternative to counter the dominance enjoyed by tech giants like Google and Apple.
The minister further highlighted that, while the government is encouraging the private players to host apps, it is also showing its interest to develop and strengthen its mobile app store. The response has been good and the government wishes to strengthen it further, he added.
The minister also informed that India is the largest user of mobile apps. Further, as per the India App Market Statistics report 2021, around 5 percent of the apps on Android belong to the Indian Apps developers.
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