Google To Take Action Against 10 Indian Apps Over Non-Compliance
Taking action against Indian app developers, Google today said that it may remove ten Indian apps from its Play Store over the violation of the Play Store billing policy.. However, the company has not revealed the names of applications it is taking action against.
According to a report by Moneycontrol, the apps that may affect the action comprise matrimony platform Shaadi.com, streaming platforms Altt, Stage, and Aha, and dating app Quack Quack, among others. The search engine giant cited the non-payment of the fees to the Play Store for the action against the apps. According to Google, even after extending deadlines for paying the fee, the companies, the app developers failed to comply with its billing policies.
Google in its blog post said, “After giving these developers more than three years to prepare, including three weeks after the Supreme Court’s order, we are taking necessary steps to ensure our policies are applied consistently across the ecosystem, as we do for any form of policy violation globally,”
When the Madras High Court dismissed the app developer’s plea against Google’s app billing policy, the developers had approached the Supreme Court. The Alphabet Inc”s Google has refuted the accusations of exploitation, saying that it charges the lowest from app developers.
The Supreme Court had on February 9 agreed to hear pleas by the startups against Google billing policies. But the bench, headed by the chief justice of India DY Chandrachud, did not pass any order protecting the apps from the actions against them.
Around 30 app developers had written to the company seeking to exercise restraint in taking action by removing the apps from the Play Store until March 19, in which the Supreme Court is set to hear their petitions.
However, the tech company in its blog also said that if the app gets delisted, they can resubmit their apps by choosing any of the three billing options. The company also claimed that it always works with developers to help them find solutions, adding that over 200,000 Indian developers using Google Play currently complying with its policies.
