There are approx. 3.5 billion smartphone users in the world surely 70% smartphones do or did have Chinese apps in it and are using it every single second. It has become more popular day by day at the time I’m writing there are approx 70-80 famous applications including Tik-Tok, SHARit, Xende, Club Factory, Shain, Tencent’s Applications, Famous Browser Uc Browser and so on.
Evenly china blocked famous applications such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, WordPress, Blogspot, Blogger, Flickr, SoundCloud, any google related service. Currently, they are using their apps and search engines such as Bindu.
People are laid with mobile applications and games all the time without knowingly using it all day. Thus they become a victim of mobile phones and Getting More Habitually Day by Day.
Day by day over the past 2-3 years the market of Chinese application is growing continuously. A Sign is given by Indian intelligence agencies that these Chinese apps are extracting huge amounts of data from Indian users, and aren’t safe to use. But in the end by these apps, the owners of the applications are making millions of dollars out of them.
Chinese Apps
1 / 10.TikTok
It is owned by ByteDance. TikTok was launched in 2017 and later launched in the US by merging with Musical.ly on 2 August 2018 it was seen as a way for the Chinese app to enter the US market. It’s a video sharing app where someone can make a lip-sync of 3-15 seconds. Tiktok is one of the most popular Chinese apps in the Indian market.
Video sharing app TikTok has over 800 million active users worldwide and nearly one-third (64 percent) of its total downloads from India. With over 467 million downloads of the app have been downloaded by Indian users. In the first month of 2020, TikTok was the most downloaded app in the world.
- Android users of TikTok users spent over 68 billion hours using the app in 2019 (according to the business of apps).
- Indian users spend approx. 38 minutes daily using the app.
- It is ranked 7th on the world’s most used social media platform by monthly active users (According to the business of apps).
UC Browser
- Revenue of UCWeb in 2019:- $103.8 million (according to Owler)
- The parent Company of UCWeb:- Alibaba Group
UC Browser has more than 110 million monthly active users. It was developed by Singapore-China mobile internet company UCWeb. At present, it’s owned by Alibaba Group. According to Research, it says UC Browser is insecure, with many vulnerabilities and privacy issues. UC Browser is one of the most popular Chinese apps in the Indian market.
Chinese web browsers are popular mainly because they consume fewer data. The appetite for fast web browsing users are using it and also because of less data consumption In a country where internet speeds can be pretty poor, users are using it as their primary web browser.
3 / 10.SHAREit
- Revenue of SHAREit in 2019:- $1 million (according to Owler)
- The parent company:- SHAREit Technologies Co.Ltd
SHAREit is a sharing file platform for mobile devices. It’s an application of company SHAREit Technologies Co.Ltd which was founded in April 2015.
Within a year of its launch, SHAREit acquired 150 million Indian users and 500 million users around the globe.
ShareIt and also Xender are in the Chinese apps list.
4 / 10.Club Factory
- Revenue of Club Factory in 2019:- $300 million (according to Owler)
- The parent company:- Jiayun Data Technology
E-commerce is a widely used technology across the world. Amazon and Walmart are considered the most valued e-commerce company but somehow the e-commerce companies from china are entering the list such as Club Factory, Shein. Alibaba was on the list before.
Club Factory is an E-commerce company that was created by Jiayun Data Technology. It was first launched in 2014 by two Stanford students Aaron Jialun Li and Vincent Lou. Club Factory has positioned its market in places like the United States, India, Europe, Southeast Asia. India is the leading market for Club Factory accounting for nearly 40 million users out of its from India and 70 million users from all over the globe.
Club Factory is one of the most popular e-commerce Chinese apps in India.
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- Revenue of UC Web in 2019:- $103.8million (according to Owler)
- The parent company of UC Web:- Alibaba Group
UC News is developed by UCWeb (owned by Alibaba Group). UC News is available in 7 main languages including English, Hindi, Indonesian, and so on. UC News uses the concept of big-data with the help of three big data clusters that they have set-up in India currently. Millions of data requests for users are handled through these clusters.
It has 130 million monthly users from India (according to UC Web). UC News is one of the most popular News typed Chinese apps in the India.
6 / 10.ES File Explorer
- The parent company of ES File Explorer:- DU Global (owned by Baidu inc.)
File explorer such as ES File Explorer has a considerable amount of users. Es File Explorer is developed by Do Global which is owned by a Chinese multinational technology company Baidu’s app business. However, in April 2019 Chinese application ES File Explorer and other several apps created by DO Global were removed from Google Play due to ‘click fraud’ by clicking ads in users’ apps and running in the background without permission.
Though ES File Explorer is a free program, the app began charging a monthly $9.99 fee in order to use its more advanced features, towards the end of 2019.
7 / 10.Beauty Plus
- The parent company:- Meitu inc.
Beauty Plus is an application from Meitu inc. which is a Chinese company. Meitu’s beauty applications have more than 450 million active users worldwide mainly Its selfie-editing app Beautyplus has become one of the world’s most popular retouch apps. Other beauty retouch apps such as Youcam Makeup, Selfie City, Wonder Camera, Perfect Corp, Photo wonder are also from mainland China.
Click here to see 10 facts about tesla motors. 8 / 10.- Revenue of WeChat in 2019:- $900 million (according to Wikipedia)
- The parent company:- Tencent
WeChat is a social media, chatting, and payment app which was created by Tencent. It was first released in 2011. As of 2019, It had moreover 1 billion monthly users from china and the entire world.
9 / 10.Cam Scanner
- The parent company:- INTSIG
Cam Scanner is a mobile application that allows users to scan the document and photos. CamScanner itself is a scanning app designed to detect text via a phone’s camera and transcribe it to a digital format. It has nearly 100 million downloads on the play store and millions of active users.
10 / 10.MI Store
- The parent company:- Xiaomi Corporation
Xiaomi’s MIUI has 80 million monthly users so there are so many users are shopping from MI stores without caring for their data.
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile (PUBG mobile)
- Revenue of PUBG mobile in 2019:- 226 million revenue
- The parent company of PUBG mobile:- Tencent
A lot of people still used to think that battle royal game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) mobile is owned by South Korean company blue hole although it doesn’t it’s developed by Tencent and the majority of its share is owned by Tencent. Tencent is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company. Initial when PUBG launched in March 2017 as a Windows version and the version for Windows was developed by PUBG corporation Blue Hole not the version for Android or IOS.
The idea of PUBG was launched by Changhan Kim who is also CEO of PUBG Corporation. Although China already banned PUBG from its country.
- PUBG mobile has over 50 million daily users (according to gameindustry.biz).
I hope you got it why we should remove these Chinese apps from our mobile. (Because of data-sharing issue).
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