KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
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Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#2And google is supposed to launch a gaming console today that streams from the cloud. It's bound to generate a ton of support cases, I wonder how they will handle that.
I also wonder how they deal with the countries that require a publicly listed phone number and address to be able to contact them.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#3A couple weeks ago Google removed one of my apps for the same violation. I rebuilt the same application with the SMS feature removed and the Play Store Developer Console was very unclear and buggy on how to resolve the issue and get my app out of the rejected status.
I spent the better part of 2 hours just to get everything up and running again and it's frustrating to know that you cannot easily contact anyone @ Google to ask for help.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#4Why do people still use the "play store" when other repositories like f-droid are arguably better and perfectly available? This is beyond me. The terms of service of the google play store are callous and unacceptable.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#5Why do people still use the "play store" when other repositories like f-droid are arguably better and perfectly available? This is beyond me. The terms of service of the google play store are callous and unacceptable.
Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid.
Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#6Google have completely messed up this SMS policy.
Someone senior needs to step in and fix this, it's utterly toxic for developer relations. The process is unreliable and doesn't work, and bluntly this sort of whitelisting of APIs for people "we think really need it" is a bad idea in the first place.
Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#7And google is supposed to launch a gaming console today that streams from the cloud. It's bound to generate a ton of support cases, I wonder how they will handle that. I also wonder how they deal with the countries that require a publicly listed phone number and address to be able to contact them.
The phone number will go to a recording directing people to use the online support form that routes to /dev/null, while anything mailed to the PO Box listed that isn't a legal notice will go in the trash.
These large companies do not care about local laws beyond doing the bare mimimum to appear somewhat compliant.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#8Why do people still use the "play store" when other repositories like f-droid are arguably better and perfectly available? This is beyond me. The terms of service of the google play store are callous and unacceptable.
Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid. Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).
This is KDE Connect, not Snapchat. Joe Linuxonthedesktop has definitely heard of F-Droid.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#9Why do people still use the "play store" when other repositories like f-droid are arguably better and perfectly available? This is beyond me. The terms of service of the google play store are callous and unacceptable.
Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid. Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).
Unless you have a device from Amazon (Fire tablet/stick), which runs Google-free Android.
Re: KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
#10Why do people still use the "play store" when other repositories like f-droid are arguably better and perfectly available? This is beyond me. The terms of service of the google play store are callous and unacceptable.
Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid. Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).
Thank you, man.