I just hate this part of Google.
I once had my merchant wallet account blocked and they just don't care to give me a reason why it was blocked. I got fed up trying to reach them and finally implemented in app payment using Stripe. This was for Chrome Webstore App.
Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP
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#152Do no Evil?
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#153I'm confused. Lets say I have a web app where users are billed monthly through PayPal. Now I want to release an Android version of my app that has a 'Login' button but not a 'Sign Up' button (that is, sign up can only be done through the website). Can I keep PayPal as my sole billing mechanism?
Yes, if payments are done through the website and not with the paypal android sdk.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> They aren't and they don't. They are a store like any other and the store owner can decide not to sell your products without a good reason if they want to. On Android there are several alternative stores (most notably Amazon) not to mention apps can be installed directly by downloading the APK without any device modification. It's the same as with internet explorer on windows back in the day. google play is preins…
The Internet Explorer bundling was only illegal because Microsoft was abusing one monopoly (Windows) to kill the competition in another market (Browsers). Android doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone market, so they are far from having a monopoly on App Stores. A developer has alternatives to publish his or her apps.
You are right, but whatever the details, Google behaviour is unfair both to its customers and to its suppliers. They (together with Apple) are using their dominant position to control this marketplace, to the detriment of everyone but themselves.
Full credit to them for creating these markets in the first place. They deserve to be rewarded. However, there is a line (however fuzzy) that they should not cross. If they start abusing their position, then regulation is needed to ensure a level playing field.
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#155I would understand this if they wouldn't allow completely free applications in the app store. But as it is, remove something just because it uses another form of monetization? Why not remove free apps that have non-google ads in them?
Don't give them ideas, now.
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#156I'm confused. Lets say I have a web app where users are billed monthly through PayPal. Now I want to release an Android version of my app that has a 'Login' button but not a 'Sign Up' button (that is, sign up can only be done through the website). Can I keep PayPal as my sole billing mechanism?
With Google, I fear that depends upon the day of the week and the wind direction.
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#157Dare I say it but when a company has a certain level of dominance in a "channel" then they need be subject to regulation. A channel might be any means of reaching customers whether a telecomms provider, a form of media, or in this case, a device app store. The total control a gate-keeper has on the survival of tangentially related companies by eliminating their access to customers is simply not right. They should be…
Yeah none of that has to do with android. You can easily install third party apps or entire other marketplaces. IOS on the other hand does have that issue.
It is frustrating how few Android developers make their .apk files available directly. I don't use the Google play store, and I often have to hunt around to find .apks on "dodgy" download sites, when the author clearly wants to give the app away.
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#159I feel it's an obvious problem that apps that allow IAP are listed as free. Has google or apple fixed this yet? When browsing for apps there you may see a top app being free and another costing $1. You pick the "free" one and it turns out it is useless without an IAP whereas the $1 app perhaps would not. It turns out the free app costs $2 in order to function as well as the $1 app. The consumer friendly thing to do w…
"You pick the "free" one and it turns out it is useless without an IAP whereas the $1 app perhaps would not. It turns out the free app costs $2 in order to function as well as the $1 app." So uninstall it and shell out the $1 for the other one. FFS, why is this hard?
It isn't hard, it's annoying. It's such a simple fix. I don't mind the freemium model but I do mind the bait-and-switch freemium model where you get the reputation and feature listing of a paid app, but list the price of a free app.
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#160I know Google's policy on this, but I completely understand where the developer is coming from. Google has been taking a collective shit on every developer out of its list of seller countries[0], which is ridiculously short and hasn't been expanded in god knows how long, and even then, there were only a handful of countries added. On Google's page about seller countries they say: "We're working hard to add more count…
I can understand your frustration. I am in a country from which you couldn't sell for a long time (but now can). The thing that irked me was, when I signed up for an Android Market developer account there was no indication given to me that I won't be able to sell apps! I spent about two years developing an app and when it was time to publish the paid version, I discovered that I couldn't! That was one hell of a shock…
But not the last, I'll wager.