How Chinese apps won over India

July 06, 2020 16:13

From hardware to software, Chinese companies have dominated the digital technologies space in India over the last few years, with more than a little push from the Chinese establishment, write Pranav Mukul, Karishma Mehrotra, Aashish Aryan, Sandeep Singh in the Indian Express, on how Chinese companies came to dominate India's digital space.

In India, the ground for this aggressive push from Chinese companies was laid in July 2014, when Xiaomi, often called the 'Apple of China', made its entry, followed by a flurry of Chinese brands such as Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme etc. The influx of these Chinese companies peaked in 2016 when Reliance Jio launched its cheap data offerings, starting with its free Internet package that disrupted the telecom sector, they say, here.

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