Google temporarily booted a popular Indian payment app from its Play Store for facilitating gambling. The app's developer says Google's dominance makes it nearly impossible to fight back.
Speaking to Business Insider, Paytm President Deora said the company was less concerned about the few hours the app was down for and more concerned that it was "reputationally damaging" by accusing Paytm of running gambling promotions.
"The first thing you would do is call up Google and say, I don't think it violates any of these policies, let me explain," said Deora. "But I think in most cases you pretty quickly realize the fastest course of action for your users is to probably take out whatever they say is an offensive feature and resubmit the app. They've got a gun to your head.
The case is bringing up many familiar arguments that have been raised with regards to both Google's and Apple's app stores in the past. Both companies are currently embroiled in a legal battle with Epic Games after removing the popular 'Fortnite' app for breaching their app store policies around purchases.
But many of the same arguments have been used against Google, whose Android operating system has over 90% of the market share in India.
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