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“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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You're probably better off creating a product for a more professionally managed marketplace - like the Office365 marketplace - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179924.aspx . This lets you develop apps on Exchange (similar to your tasks app). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj220499(EXCHG.80).a... and http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Create-t... Office365 customers (all of them…

> (I'm not shilling for Microsoft. I have no financial interests here). Paid or unpaid, this post is pretty much shilling.

Fine. If that's what you want to call it. I just want to point out alternatives. Take it or leave it.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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> (I'm not shilling for Microsoft. I have no financial interests here). Paid or unpaid, this post is pretty much shilling.

Fine. If that's what you want to call it. I just want to point out alternatives. Take it or leave it.

You weren't just pointing out alternatives but actively dissuading someone. That's where I think it crosses the line.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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There is a communication gap between them and the developers, the problem is there is no real person to talk and sort things out.

I'm a DevRel person working for Google's Apps APIs, please contact me.

Hello @thejbf, I am not able to get your email from Hacker News, please send a test email to me at anurag.ait@gmail.com. Thanks for helping out

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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There is a communication gap between them and the developers, the problem is there is no real person to talk and sort things out.

Email me. I know someone who might be able to help you.

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Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Developed an app for Android and placed it on Android market. It had 5000 users after a week and then it got removed without notice, no email, no reason why, no nothing. First and last time I do anything with Google, malicious company not only for that reason but for many other.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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The problems with Google start at the very basics of communication, with their policy of providing just one email adress (and nothing else) where you may or may not get an answer, effectively handling incoming requests more like petitions than providing real communication.

This is in constrast to many other big companies where you get at least some reply (although it's often canned and not very helpful, but still more than a generic auto reply), or where you can call a more or less expensive hotline, so you can at least pay them for hearing your voice.

This behaviour of Google is so restrictive that it even violates consumer protection laws in some countries. For example, here in Germany they got into trouble because they violated the so-called "Impressumspflicht". This law requests that they have to provide (among others) at least one postal address and one telephone number on their website, and that they can actually be contacted by those, in 60 minutes or less.

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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It is difficult to charge money from India as Individuals, paypal does not accept money for India nowadays and it is near to impossible to attach a international payment gateway. I thought of donation as well but again paypal issue.

You should check out Bitcoin as a payment option, it was pretty much designed for your use case: http://www.weusecoins.com/en/ BitPay as a payment processor in particular: https://bitpay.com/

I nearly fell off my chair at this response. The app is obviously aimed at non-programmers. Good luck getting them to pay you in Bitcoins.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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We also receive very little love from Google. They are notorious for not helping developers, which is tragic.

Google does give a lot of love to developers. AFAIK, they have dedicated developer teams for developer relations; just look at the quality of their API documentations and support. This one looks like a operations issue. Perhaps they do not have a corresponding relations team focused on operations support.

I have looked it the quality of Google API'S its horrible only partially complete and totally lacking in meaningful documentation.

If some one came to me saying my employer is saying I am a poor performer and trying to sack me and gave the Google apis's and its documentation as an example I would have sympathies with the employer.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Google is terrible at support in general. I've been reporting a blogspot website stealing my documents and impersonating me for making money by ads for over two years. I sent my passport two times, and some friends also sent a report for me. Result? not even a verification e-mail. They simply host website that attacks my intellectual property, my name and give me no piece of shit.

Identity fraud is a criminal matter. Talk to the police. If they have stolen copyrighted material, file a DMCA.

It's a technical doc without copyrights, that I wrote 8 years ago...
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