FILE PHOTO: Remove China Apps is seen in the Google Play store on a mobile phone in this illustration taken June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/File Photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has taken down an Indian mobile application from its app store that allowed users to remove other Chinese apps from their phones as it violated certain company policies, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The app, “Remove China Apps”, had become top trending free app on Google’s mobile app store in India with more than five million downloads since late May. Its popularity rose amid calls for a boycott of Chinese mobile apps in India during a Himalayan border dispute between the two nations.
A Google spokesman confirmed to Reuters the app had been removed due to violation of app store policies, but gave no further details.
A person familiar with the matter said the software violated Google’s policies prohibiting apps that mislead users into removing or disabling…
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