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This is exactly the reason I would have never considered to build any apps. I have had couple of ideas but the risk is to big that a faceless corporation is going cancel your business without any reason and visibility.
Eh, you can still put them on an external website. This really only applies to iOS.
I had an app that was making about $10,000 USD a month. It was taken down by Google because apparently I copied some other developer's iOS app. I asked them to tell me the name of the iOS app they believed I copied. They named the iOS version of my Android app. They basically accused me of copying myself because the Android version was under my company's name while the iOS version was under my name. Google unbanned t…
The didn’t send a warning or anything to give you the opportunity to explain the misunderstanding? Doesn’t that give you a good argument to sue them?
Its more that Google's implementation of the DMCA is broken. They have automated take downs and have a completely broken appeal process. They certainly aren't the only company failing to deal with the DMCA correctly. There are clauses in the DMCA specifically targetted at false claims, if those were enforced we might start to see a change in the system but as is the DMCA is misused too often.
Before regulating AI, maybe we should consider regulating Artificial Stupidity.
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With his finally adding support for web push notifications, I think we are pretty much there already. What else is missing that’s needed for most apps?
I think browser push notifications are considered a bit of a failed standard. Lots of browser's don't support them e.g. iOS browsers.
https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
I'm not surprised Google is eager to take it down under any pretext, and not so eager to restore it.
I think there might be more to this story. This app is what people generally use to sideload apps on a locked Google TV device such as the Google Chromecast. One such commonly sideloaded app is SmartTube, an unofficial YouTube client with no ads and SponsorBlock included: https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/ I'm not surprised Google is eager to take it down under any pretext, and not so eager to restore it.
Besides, Google claimed that the application was collecting email addresses while the app technically couldn't collect email addresses.
If they want to ban something, setup proper rules like "No browsers allowed" and then ban the apps under those rules, instead of trying to hide the real reason for the ban.
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Better expected returns, from the sounds of it, since they’re not at risk of being arbitrarily sin-binned without recourse.
A lemon market can be worse than being banned from a market. When banned, at least you can start over or comply to get back in. When its a lemon market, there's no good market. My observation is that the web has become a lemon market and I'm curious if I'm wrong about it. Also, you can definitely get banned from the web, be it through being banned from the discovery channels or regulators. You can get banned from Twi…
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Eh, you can still put them on an external website. This really only applies to iOS.
Do you think that you can easily reach the same userbase with a 3rd party installation process as the official app store one?
Don't fall for the propensity of Big Tech to scare you away from general purpose computing. If you're capable of writing, testing, and publishing an app in the first place, you have an obligation to educate the public about just what the nature of the sacrifices are that are being made by accepting a "walled garden" status quo for computing.
If you're only in it for the money, that may not matter to you I suppose. If you're dedicated to trying to bring the superpower that is general purpose computing to the public however, it's one of those bits of suffering you have to navigate for their best interest.
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This is exactly the reason I would have never considered to build any apps. I have had couple of ideas but the risk is to big that a faceless corporation is going cancel your business without any reason and visibility.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's an existential risk.
It's kind of like saying, "I've never considered getting a job because the risk is too big that a faceless corporation is going lay you off without any reason and visibility."
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's an existential risk.
I didn't downvote, but I assume people are because everything you can possibly do in life comes with some risk -- you need to evaluate the risk versus the benefit to decide whether to do something. Not even considering developing an app because of the risk of your app being banned seems like a fairly extreme overreaction. It's kind of like saying, "I've never considered getting a job because the risk is too big that…