Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings
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Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings
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Re: Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings
#2And you've got to give all your info to some consultancy! " the information that Dun & Bradstreet has about your business is up to date before creating a developer account"
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#4And you've got to give all your info to some consultancy! " the information that Dun & Bradstreet has about your business is up to date before creating a developer account"
Dun Dun Dun! Playtality!
(In the voice of Mortal Kombat)
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#5What phone number will Google be listing for their own apps, I wonder.
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#7What percentage of existing app developers on the Play Store do not have a DUNS number? Do they need to incorporate an LLC in order to get a DUNS number for their open source project?
Google decided to take the first 15% of app developers' first $1M in revenue instead of 30% in 2021. Google decided to take a 30% cut from all Play Store app and in-app revenue, and you may only use Google Payments in your app (just like Apple).
$150,000 out of $1,000,000 is a lot of money to host downloads, comments, and scan APKs. Shopping malls don't even demand a 15%-30% cut of revenue.
F-droid charges $0 to host APK app downloads and comments but doesn't scan APKs IIUC? https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/
How to donate to F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/donate/
Re: Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings
#8Now only if it were that easy to get a phone number to speak to a human at Google
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#9Wonder what will happen when millions of people phone Google the next time Gmail or YouTube goes down?
This assumes Google have to comply with their own policy of course!
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#10The page isn’t clear on if the info has to be shown or can be shown.
I get doing more to verify developers (ignoring what I think of DUNS).
But acting as an individual developer if I were to think of creating an app for Android and saw that I had to publicly post my phone number that would be an absolute dead stop to development.