Comment on China’s Online Black Market — Part III: Underground Android App Distribution by Ralph Troy

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Now everyone knows there’re dozens of Android stores in China and the biggest stores are run by Tencent, Baidu, Qihoo, Xiaomi and Wandoujia. There are apparently legal ways to get or buy Android app installs or active users in China. Also they can turn to those Android app stores or other marketing services. Widgets created automatically download apps in order to get higher rankings in Android app stores. There are Android security services in China, but what’s creepy is some of them like Qihoo are app distributors themselves.