Chinese Apps Are Losing Their Hold on India (techcrunch.com) 7
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apps from Chinese developers have been gaining popularity on Indian app stores for sometime. Last year, as many as 44 of the top 100 Android apps in India were developed by Chinese firms. But things have changed this year as local developers put on a fight. According to app analytics and marketing firm AppsFlyer, Indian apps as a whole have recaptured their original standing. 41% of top 200 apps in Indian editions of Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store in Q2 and Q3 this year were developed by Indian developers and local firms, up from 38% last year, the report said. Data from App Annie, another research firm, corroborates the claim. "This uptick happened chiefly at the expense of Chinese apps, which fell from their lead position to 38% from 43% in 2018. Altogether, Chinese and Indian apps make up almost four-fifths (79%) of the list," the report said.
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When you hire and train a bunch of people, they won't magically lose the knowledge overnight, even if you kick em out "because now they're too expensive".
I think in 10 years the megacorps will move their operations to another cheaper country, but they will have to deal with the consequences in form of some sort of indian tech mega monstrosity.
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Another likely option is a lot of smaller companies.
Basically take Finland, a country where 12 years ago Nokia was "The tech industry" accounting for more than 2/3 of electronics and software exports. But then Nokia collapsed.
In the immediate aftermath there was a huge tech unemployment with people like programmers hurting.
But now about 8 years or so after the collapse, the tech exports are much higher than then, programmers being is real short supply and such. But the new growth was not done by one compan
Meaningless (Score:1)
Given that this is about only the top 200 apps, these percentages are pretty meaningless.
Foreign or domestic? (Score:2)
So, is it better to have a foreign country spy on you or your own country? I kind of have it in my head that the Chinese spying on me is less objectionable than my own country spying on me. Seriously, a lot of my data would be useless in China, but very useful here.
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So, is it better to have a foreign country spy on you or your own country?
Irrelevant. They'll just sell/trade the results to one another.