The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

esikich wrote: post #214

pjmlp wrote: post #193

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Even people selling on the street or doing charity work have to account for liability of their actions. Lets stop talking about open source as special snowflakes where everything is excused.

The problem is it's literally speech. Selling something isn't speech, you do not have the right to do charity work or run a business. It goes even beyond speech, it's closer to pure math/logic and I feel very uncomfortable about regulating that. I also think it's literally impossible.

Post by diegolas » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

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I don't know. Literally every single person I help with tech support makes me doubt this is possible. People do not care in the slightest and treat suggestions to learn basic digital hygiene as if you've asked them to a computer science degree in its entirety. Even super basic stuff like remembering a single secure password instead of reusing the same 2 or 3 basic initials-dob-symbol permutations that were probably p…

IMO in that case its their own fault. After all they have free will and can use it against their own good if they so choose. Let them get pwned a few times and see if they learn.

Post by toxik » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

howunfortunate wrote: post #210

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MAYBE operating systems shouldn't have gatekeepers which can deny access to billions of customers for any and no reason at all. Apple and Google are WELL past due for regulation in this space. The fact that we cannot download and install software from the internet onto our phones JUST like we can do with our computers is a symbol of our inept and ineffective politicians. And before someone says "well akshully you can…

The push to involve the legal system and the government is ironic. It's partly lawsuits that are pushing Google to do this in the first place - because people download shady apps and get scammed or hacked. The more regulation we get, the more it's going to push towards central app stores that are inaccessible to small devs.

Post by echelon » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

rock_artist wrote: post #179

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And what should we do about apps' getting hacked, sending out malicious updates that get auto-updated and thereby infecting tens of millions or billions of phones simultaneously? I'm not saying we have the perfect system but anything that slants the system towards "easier downloads" or "less gatekeeping" brings large, obvious risks. I don't see how regulation would address them.

We already had enough proof of vulnerabilities in the OS code and Manufacturers (eg. Samsung/Lenovo/etc privileged apps), there were enough reviewed apps that were used for fraud or access as bad actors. My banking works in my 'unprotected' computer browser. So I'd expect giving anyone equivalent freedom. I don't mind if there's a default for gate-keepers as long as they allow competition. but I would expect to have…

Post by pflenker » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

bronson wrote: post #222

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Do people not remember the days of viruses destroying computers? They were a massive issue before, and now they're barely a thought for most people. These review processes have been good for the general population.

What review processes on computers?