Looking around the Google Play Store or on APKPure you would think so, at least where utility apps are concerned. Being that several of these apps are identified in some way with a lion, could you say Indian app developers have the lion's share of apps? ;)
Origin of apps aside, a problem that becomes very noticeable on Google Play is bogus feedback and ratings. Seriously? 10, 100 or 1000 comments, and most if not all of them are from India with one or two word praises, and it's not uncommon to see someone claim the designer is his brother; apparently app designers have large families.
This is just the same BS that went on with PLR software for Windows. Of course a lot of that software was actually useful to some degree, even though it was just re-branded a hundred times; it mostly wasn't 'all' of what they claimed it to be. Like any other group looking to make a quick buck, webmasters would gang together and promote each other's software sales pages with glowing reviews. Now that's taking place on Google Play.
There are some nice looking apps on Google Play that you will see under 100 different names. They look just slightly different with altered colors and start pages, but they are just re-branded crapware for the most part. Some might even be useful or even great apps if it weren't for all the ad pages that keep popping up. I mean seriously, what kind of effing fool thinks that irritating the hell out of someone and potentially crashing their device is going to inspire them to click on an ad?
I hate to generalize, but it is unfortunately an obvious trend taking place on Google Play. If you are looking at an app on Google Play and the designer is from India, or claims to be, and it has good ratings and reviews but those reviews are from India as well, it's a good bet to avoid that app. Unless you really like having your phone crashing.. then go for it.
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