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Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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This whole app store thing with Apple/Google is BS. Imagine if your car could only drive to locations approved as safe by the car manufacturer, and they could auto-ban your Grandma's house with no recourse.

It's more like if you could only drive approved cars on the regular roads.. which is already the case but regulated by the government instead.

> if you could only drive approved cars on convenient roads.. which is already the case

huh?

Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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At this point, why not just add the link to report your non-UGC. If this is what they want, give it to them. You can just ignore the reports on the backend. You can probably remove it next update when you don't get Anthony since it's pretty clear it's just one stubborn, lazy reviewer. All that said - the Play Store and App Store review hell is one dystopia I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I'm so happy to work on th…

Good thing web browsers aren't fully controlled by Google and Apple

Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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I clicked on this thinking "immature rant incoming", but darned if I didn't end up increasing my anger at the exact pace he did with every step! Nothing more frustrating than talking to a human refusing to behave like a human, and a process that isn't a process.

Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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As a scientist, I often have to deal with similar BS of a reviewer misunderstanding a submitted journal article, literally insisting we do something we already did, and explained in the paper.

I try to just own the fact that I didn't make my explanation clear and visible enough, so I just submit an updated version along with a comment like "We thank the reviewer for pointing out that we didn't clearly articulate our work on X, so we revised the manuscript accordingly."

In this case change around the UI for this tool to make it slightly more idiot proof, resubmit, and it will be approved. Getting angry and adversarial will only make them have a bad attitude and intentionally be unhelpful. Take them seriously, stroke their egos, and take fully responsibility for having presented your feature in a way they didn't understand. Thank them for pointing out this huge flaw in your program and giving you the opportunity to fix it!

Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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>Are you a human? If not, please put me in contact with one.

Little did he know that the entire google play store was set up as a gigantic Turing test. It was never about the apps...

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Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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post #20
post #8

This whole app store thing with Apple/Google is BS. Imagine if your car could only drive to locations approved as safe by the car manufacturer, and they could auto-ban your Grandma's house with no recourse.

It's more like if you could only drive approved cars on the regular roads.. which is already the case but regulated by the government instead.

I think the analogy is more if you could only drive your car on government approved roads.

Re: Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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It's not clear from the screenshot that the "Report" button is reporting content rather than a user, especially when it's listed right under "Block user". (Also keep in mind the viewer of the image has no idea how you brought up that popup, like whether you tapped someone's name or their comment, so that context is missing.) I would just make that clear in the app + screenshot by calling it "Report post" or "Report c…

There was a previous topic about this issue where the developer just iterated on things (changing font size, labels, add text, remove text) to past whatever bots they have.

I think that approach would be valid here. Change the link to "report content", etc.

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