Till a few days ago, Zoho’s Arattai app was being touted as an indigenous alternative to WhatsApp. It also became the most downloaded app on Google Play Store, but now its magic is fading. In comparison to WhatsApp, this app is not being liked by the users and now it was out of the list of top 100 apps on Play Store. About a month ago everyone was talking about Arattai app and a large number of people had created their accounts on this app.

Why did Arattai app lag?

Arattai app was launched in 2021, but it got limelight only this year. After a post by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, people discovered this app and the number of its users increased rapidly. It has many features like WhatsApp, but it could not work its magic for long. Initially its messages were not end-to-end encrypted. Apart from this, removing people from WhatsApp was a big challenge for Arattai, which the company could not overcome. People have been using WhatsApp for a long time and for many people it has become the default choice for messaging and calling. In such a situation, it became difficult for Arattai to remain on top in the rankings.

Full attention to privacy in Arattai

Made entirely in India, the Arattai app offers features like personal chat, group chat, voice notes, image and video sharing like WhatsApp. Now it has come with end-to-end encryption feature for personal chat also and the company is preparing to equip it with many more new features. Preparations are also underway to integrate Zoho Pay app into it, so that users can use Arattai for chatting as well as for payment. Zoho, the company making it, says that full care has been taken of privacy in Arattai and it will never monetize personal data.

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India own browser: With the help of web browsers like Micrassoft, Google Crom and Mozilla Firefox, we reach our favorite internet sites. These browsers are used all over the world and now India can make its browser to compete. If India manages to make its indigenous browser, then it can get a big shock to big companies like Microsoft and Google.

The Government of India is encouraging the country’s IT companies to make their browser. For this, the government organized a web browser development challenge competition. All IT companies, innovators and developers across the country were invited to join it. There were a total of 58 entries in this competition, out of which three winners were selected. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav announced the names of the winners. The Union Minister also said that the winners were selected from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.

These three selected winners

Zoho achieved the first place in this. For this, Joho has been given an amount of Rs 1 crore as a prize. Ping has secured the second place, which has been given a prize money of Rs 75 lakh. The third place has been secured by AJNA, which got Rs 50 lakh as a prize. During this, Ashwini Vaishnav said, India’s IT sector revenue is more than $ 282 billion.

However, till now the focus was only on services, but now the government is focusing on developing software products and for this, startups and academics are being promoted so that the country is ready to be its own browser, which can also follow the standards of data safety and privacy.

Many benefits of being a local browser

The country will have its own browser, so its benefits are also many. One, the data remains security. The country’s data will remain in the country. There is no danger of data leaking. The government will continue to keep an eye on this. It will work on iOS, Windows and Android all. With this, India will also help in achieving the government’s goal of making a ‘product nation’.

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