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Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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Do we need a github repo with "precedent law" and machine+human correspondence for account terminations and appeals at GAFA companies?

There's a historical reading list for law students at http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/library/2013/06/27/AMK...:

> Understanding Freedom's Heritage: How to Keep and Defend Liberty. This list, prepared for young people by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, includes some acknowledged classics and some idiosyncratic choices.

Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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I imagine the comments will be either: its your fault, dont trust google and have a strategy that totally relies on a party out of your control, & in this day and age you have to do this and this happened to me with google/apple/paypal/microsoft etc.

While i think relying on google (or a single platform) is dangerous, these platforms really need to address these issues. While their isn’t much competition, they are really eroding developer trust. Developers may decide to build for an entirely different platform or work on a different idea that is outside mobile. This ultimately hurts app stores and this these platforms.

Short term a small amount of discontent doesnt matter, but it could reach a tipping point.

Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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post #3

Sounds like a bad situation. If I were you I would simply change the app ID, create a new Play account and publish it there. If there problem is with the connection to a banned account and not the app, then this removes that problem/connection.

Can someone with more knowledge explain why this wouldn't be the easy solution?

Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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post #3

Sounds like a bad situation. If I were you I would simply change the app ID, create a new Play account and publish it there. If there problem is with the connection to a banned account and not the app, then this removes that problem/connection.

If Google is anything like Amazon, that will probably not be as easy as it sounds. Name, credit card, address, any of those will be used to link the newly created account with the old one and it will get banned again. If Google is feeling particularly clever, they will have fingerprinted the app somehow and changing the ID won't be enough. This is, after all, a company who makes their living on such techniques.

Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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post #3

Sounds like a bad situation. If I were you I would simply change the app ID, create a new Play account and publish it there. If there problem is with the connection to a banned account and not the app, then this removes that problem/connection.

Yes that seems at least worth a try, though I'm sure there's some rule against it?

Also, why do you need an android version at first? Author says the app is useless without it but I don't understand why

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