Two companies and possibly very few people decide what apps will reach a billion people. Sure wish we could elect those people.
App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings
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#52I've already been getting kind of ridiculous suspensions due to this. A dice puzzle game where all you ever earned was points for making the right patterns was banned for encouraging gambling. So, uh, goodbye one of the few things that made developing for Google better than developing for Apple. Really don't know how they could possibly be bragging about this.
Hey, there's still the Windows Store. While ostensibly reviewed, they really let everything in. I've found fake Windows Updates. Fake Dropbox, Facebook (second result, even shows up in the start menu if you type in Facebook!), and more. Some even show "Microsoft" as the publisher. And in every case, tech support tells you to piss off. When reporting a fake Dropbox app, the CSR told me it seems to work and recommended…
Yeah, there's certainly something rotten with Microsoft's App Store. I'd hazard a guess that most of it is outsourced to India and there's some internal bureaucracy putting it outside of purview of the people who could fix it. It's hard to even search for top apps that you know the name for.
I think its one of those things when Microsoft gets around to focus on it they'll "fix it" but for now, crappola.
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#53Two companies and possibly very few people decide what apps will reach a billion people. Sure wish we could elect those people.
Why should they even control this? It should be an open system by default....
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#54Two companies and possibly very few people decide what apps will reach a billion people. Sure wish we could elect those people.
Why should they even control this? It should be an open system by default....
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Was it called "Nexus Photos: Gallery KitKat"? If so, Kitkat is a Trademark.
You were also using the standard AOSP gallery icon as your icon. It seems unlikely but they could say you were impersonating a system app.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, there's still the Windows Store. While ostensibly reviewed, they really let everything in. I've found fake Windows Updates. Fake Dropbox, Facebook (second result, even shows up in the start menu if you type in Facebook!), and more. Some even show "Microsoft" as the publisher. And in every case, tech support tells you to piss off. When reporting a fake Dropbox app, the CSR told me it seems to work and recommended…
Yeah, there's certainly something rotten with Microsoft's App Store. I'd hazard a guess that most of it is outsourced to India and there's some internal bureaucracy putting it outside of purview of the people who could fix it. It's hard to even search for top apps that you know the name for. I think its one of those things when Microsoft gets around to focus on it they'll "fix it" but for now, crappola.
I'm almost definitively sure it is related to some misguided KPIs or having someone's bonus tied to the metric "number of published apps". At one point, MS was offering $100 or $200 per app, up to 10 or 20 apps. No one would believe a single dev is likely to publish 20 quality apps. Instead they really wanted shovelware. There are thousands of apps that are literally just wrappers around a web page or YouTube channel.
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#59Two companies and possibly very few people decide what apps will reach a billion people. Sure wish we could elect those people.
Why should they even control this? It should be an open system by default....
They tried that. The android app market / play store has been "open" since the start. Anybody could publish their app with no control by google.
And we blew it. The store filled up with shitty apps, scams, and blatant copies of popular apps. And people complained, so now Google is responding to those complaints by policing their app store, because apparently we can't be trusted with open marketplaces.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I've builds apps for years and many times a short discussion with Google allowed me to re-post an app with some modifications." The vast, vast, vast majority of people are not able to find a person at Google to have that discussion with in the first place. "Unless you are making apple SERIOUS revenue (think high6 to 7 figures) they will shut you down without even a response." Apple tells you before your app goes liv…
> Apple tells you before your app goes live. Look at the situation with PCalc and Transmit. Both apps which offered a killer feature, got approved by review and even featured by the editorial team, then pulled after having been on the front page of the App Store.
https://twitter.com/jamesthomson/status/527498251176796160
http://www.panic.com/blog/transmit-ios-1-1-1/
Neither of the apps got pulled. They got a warning. Whether the guidelines they were supposedly breaking were fair (or even existed) is a different thing.