Live data from Hacker News

Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

news.ycombinator.com

11–20 of 45 posts

Re: Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

#11
post #3

If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from this experience. Walk away from Google services and count your loss as cheap tuition. Bend your path toward free and open systems instead. Where you can't find them, develop them.

While I generally agree with your statement, we all rely on each other's software to some degree, as it isn't possible for everyone to custom build everything that isnt yet open source. There should be some impetus for the largest and most profitable corporations to not be /egregiously/ evil.

Google makes its money on search+adwords. Everything else they do is a hobby, and it shows. Not necessarily evil, but sloppy produces the same bad result.

Re: Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

#12
post #3

If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from this experience. Walk away from Google services and count your loss as cheap tuition. Bend your path toward free and open systems instead. Where you can't find them, develop them.

You're absolutely right. This is a great experience for him, as he now should clearly see what the problem is. Our digital identities are not ours. The OP can make more, a lot more money developing and servicing decentralized identity/related-services than writing 'apps' for 'google play'. Google will be bankrupt within 3 years.

Re: Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

#14
post #2

> I may be banned from doing something I love for the rest of my life (not to mention having no apps to add to my portfolio) 1. You can continue writing Android apps. You can (very likely) start distributing apps through the Play Store again just by creating a new account with a new credit card. Create an account as a company instead of an individual, for example. 2. Unless you're very old, distributing apps through…

> "Native apps will be replaced by web apps on mobile, just like they were on desktop." Provocative. I might agree with you.

Google and Apple appears to be trying to avoid it but I hope that they fail.

Re: Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

#15
post #3

If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from this experience. Walk away from Google services and count your loss as cheap tuition. Bend your path toward free and open systems instead. Where you can't find them, develop them.

You can't put an app on the Play Store without a Google Developer account. It's a big market to walk away from.

Re: Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE

#16
post #9

From this, you have learned many things already. Make sure you have learned a key lesson: handle your own finances. It was fine to have him pay the fee. It was not fine to tangle up his credit card in your life. YOU pay the fee, he hands you $25, you remain in control of your finances.

I don't think this is gonna help.
Post reply on HN