

You can set your privacy settings, synchronize your contacts and use location-based services. It provides control over all of the apps you’ve claimed rather than just the ones you have installed on a particular device. You can also use this app to manage your account. On a schedule, this app checks your other apps against a database and updates them accordingly. Its primary purpose is to ensure that your apps are updated and thus don’t cause conflicts with the operating system and other apps.

Google Play Services is the app the allows for communication between your devices and that platform. It’s a platform through which you manage your devices, apps, locations and so forth. Google Play is more than an app storefront.

Rameesh Kailasam, president and chief executive of industry body IndiaTech said at the time that the commission charged by Google “may kill the startup ecosystem, and force them out of the app economy.Google Play Services is a core Androids app that keeps your other apps up-to-date. On October 28 last year, Mint reported that startups were likely to step up their fight against Google’s Play Store commission, in light of CCI’s verdict. This becomes all the more problematic, considering that most of the transactions carried out in the app digital ecosystem do not use Google Play Billing System," the ADIF statement said. Further, there is absolutely no transparency as to why Google will charge 11% or 26% (commissions), even when the user avails a third-party processing service. This is a clear violation… Google shall not impose any conditions, including price-related, on app developers that is unfair, unreasonable, discriminatory, or disproportionate to the services provided to the app developers. “Despite not using any service of Google’s, app developers will be forced to pay commissions. A statement issued on the matter by industry body Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) said that the update is “a clear violation of a specific direction of the CCI." Startups and developers, however, have claimed that Google’s reaction to the CCI orders are not in compliance. On January 25, the company had affirmed as part of its policy changes that it will be enabling third party payments for all developers in the country. To be sure, Google had first released a pilot program for enabling third party billing with select developers in September last year. Google has since filed an appeal against the CCI verdict with the National Companies Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), hearings of which are ongoing at the moment. The update comes after the Competition Commission (CCI) cumulatively fined Google ₹2,273 crore (over $275 million) in October last year for abusive market dominance and anti-competitive conduct.
