As demands grow for a local app store, analysts see long road ahead

Reports say the govt is planning to launch a homegrown app store providing an alternative to Google Play Store, Apple Store

As demands from the start-up industry grow for a homegrown app store to cut the duopoly of Google and Apple, industry experts and analysts say that it would be a long road ahead to make users switch to an indigeneous platform. They, however, agree that the time is right to start thinking of an 'atmanirbhar' app store as India has the technological know-how to build such a marketplace, though it would require govt’s intervention to create a level playing field for local app stores.

“The Apple and Google app stores are recognised globally as they benchmark themselves to global privacy