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

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

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I didn't know what a "money transference service" was, and certainly didn't know this service that I didn't know about was highly regulated. I only created it because I had Google Play Credits that were gifted to me. I built an app to "convert" them to cash for myself. I had never built an app before. I was proud of it and tried to make it pretty and professional and useful for others, and used it as a learning exper…

Right but... You've used gift cards before right? The whole point is that you can't convert them to cash. Not only that but Google/Apple gift cards are notorious for being used in fraud. I guess if you're young...

Most people dont read the fine print on the back of gift cards. So I can easily see someone never running into a situation where it’s actually explained that is not allowed face to face.

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

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I didn't know what a "money transference service" was, and certainly didn't know this service that I didn't know about was highly regulated. I only created it because I had Google Play Credits that were gifted to me. I built an app to "convert" them to cash for myself. I had never built an app before. I was proud of it and tried to make it pretty and professional and useful for others, and used it as a learning exper…

Right but... You've used gift cards before right? The whole point is that you can't convert them to cash. Not only that but Google/Apple gift cards are notorious for being used in fraud. I guess if you're young...

Sure.

I created it back in 2011 or 2012.

It wasn't a gift card that personally motivated me to make this. It was credits from an online referral program I was gifted. I guarantee I did not read the fine print at that time.

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

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ehm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

> "One [software fault] was when the operator incorrectly selected X-ray mode then in 8 seconds quickly changing to electron mode, which allowed the electron beam to be set for X-ray mode without the X-ray target being in place" Therac-25 is an important software-development case study but a torturous stretch of "Using a computer wrong"

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

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How did you "accidentally" do something that was so obviously not allowed?

He accidentally got caught.

I’ll never understand people so desperate to find villains in the world.

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

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what was the url? asking for a wayback friend

https://web.archive.org/web/20220119132757/https://davidmurd...

Wow! You managed to break almost every financial law and regulation in one go. That's amazing!

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

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For new accounts yes, for older accounts it's much faster in my experience. Apple has it's own issues, they often just answer with a random question so they can kick the review down the line. "Are you sure this is your pricing?" "Can you confifrm you have not selected that country" and then you have to wait another 2 days.

TFA is a post from an established developer and showing a screenshot for the submission of an update to a longstanding app (Conversations XMPP chat client).

My experience. I submit about 20-30 apps per year

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

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By the way, the same is happening for the Apple Store. Their review process is advocated as usually within 24 hours ( and heavily advertised by Apple as such, see https://developer.apple.com/distribute/app-review/ ) and it is taking now much longer. In the last month, I had to go through the review process twice, and twice I needed to contact them personally after waiting for 1 week of waiting. It did however helped,…

Or just developer/mansgement slop? I don't understand why every app needs to be updated every second day (at least it feels like that).

The easiest way to count how many apps you have is to turn off automated updates and wait a week. The number of updates equals the number of apps.

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