Google tries to automate everything, so it amuses me that they have had to fall back to manual reviewers instead of fully automating the process.
App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings
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#12after 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 atle…
> 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.
Couldn't they say that to you about reading the terms a year ago?
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#13These are very good news. We have enough malware and spyware in play store.
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#14after 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 atle…
> 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. Couldn't they say that to you about reading the terms a year ago?
that's what i'm saying. i wish they did. when they suspended my app i was being contacted by another team from google, AdMob, to "help grow my business". so i thought i was fine as long as i can make them money. they got me excited, then suddenly removed my app.
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#15after 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 atle…
For what reason was your app removed?
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#16As an Android and iOS user, I think this is a step in the right direction. As a player I'd rather have a curated games store that allows me to discover new games easily.
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#17If 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.
I believe the top search engine in world with 100s of search engineers have thought of an eigen-vector algorithm of some sort".
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#18Nice. I just hope they won't be as annoying as Apple.
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.
From my experience (with one app published in that time frame) it's… meh. The review process is fast, granted (<1 business day), but the enforcement of rules is as arbitrary and byzantine as with Apple, with no useful appeal process.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Couldn't they say that to you about reading the terms a year ago?
that's what i'm saying. i wish they did. when they suspended my app i was being contacted by another team from google, AdMob, to "help grow my business". so i thought i was fine as long as i can make them money. they got me excited, then suddenly removed my app.
> that's what i'm saying. i wish they did.
Their terms weren't secret a year ago. At no point have they said "None of these apply if you make us money".
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#20after 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 atle…
For what reason was your app removed?
infringement. my app was called Nexus Photos. before submitting i read that google was denied the trademark on the name nexus. i also sent an email before publishing the app to google play, and they said it's ok to use the word "Nexus" in the title. i provided this info in my appeal. but the appeal was refused. as i said, they were right, but removing the app with no warning was brutal.