App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings

Well if you've been submitting apps in the last month or so then you used this system. They say even with adding humans apps are approved in hours not days/weeks as has been known to happen with Apple. Also they use a lot of automation to reduce the number of apps and the amount of work each reviewer has to review.

If they want to make the appstore a better place, why not spend some time to make search work? I dunno, an eigen-vector algorithm of some sort.

Copying Apples mistakes are not the way to go.

after getting 100k active users, and over 2million sessions per week, which was 1 year after submitting my app, google play suspended my app without warning, and i lost all.

they were right, i didn't accurately follow their terms, but if they reviewed my app once submitted a year ago, that could've been avoided.

it was a bitter experience for me, and i decided to port my app to iOS. i heard iOS provides warnings atleast.

I'm glad Google got the funding necessary to hire more -people- to review submissions. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)