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Now only if it were that easy to get a phone number to speak to a human at Google
Any place where scaling customer support to the revenue vs number of users tends to lead to a lack of phone numbers.
(Googler, opinions are my own)
What phone number will Google be listing for their own apps, I wonder.
What percentage of existing app developers on the Play Store do not have a DUNS number? Do they need to incorporate an LLC in order to get a DUNS number for their open source project? Google decided to take the first 15% of app developers' first $1M in revenue instead of 30% in 2021. Google decided to take a 30% cut from all Play Store app and in-app revenue, and you may only use Google Payments in your app (just lik…
Now only if it were that easy to get a phone number to speak to a human at Google
Depends on the product. If it's something you pay for, you can get a phone number. For example, GPay and Play store for billing issues has an accessible phone numbers. Any place where scaling customer support to the revenue vs number of users tends to lead to a lack of phone numbers. (Googler, opinions are my own)
What percentage of existing app developers on the Play Store do not have a DUNS number? Do they need to incorporate an LLC in order to get a DUNS number for their open source project? Google decided to take the first 15% of app developers' first $1M in revenue instead of 30% in 2021. Google decided to take a 30% cut from all Play Store app and in-app revenue, and you may only use Google Payments in your app (just lik…
The page isn’t clear on if the info has to be shown or can be shown. I get doing more to verify developers (ignoring what I think of DUNS). But acting as an individual developer if I were to think of creating an app for Android and saw that I had to publicly post my phone number that would be an absolute dead stop to development.
Before you submit your app, you must:
Accurately provide your developer account information, including the following details:
* Legal name and address
* D-U-N-S number, if registering as an organization
* Contact email address and phone number
* Developer email address and phone number shown on Google Play where applicable
* Payment methods where applicable
* Google payment profile linked to your developer accountWhat percentage of existing app developers on the Play Store do not have a DUNS number? Do they need to incorporate an LLC in order to get a DUNS number for their open source project? Google decided to take the first 15% of app developers' first $1M in revenue instead of 30% in 2021. Google decided to take a 30% cut from all Play Store app and in-app revenue, and you may only use Google Payments in your app (just lik…
They're now requiring DUNS numbers for organization accounts , not for individuals. Read the article.
Two days ago, I updated Stellarium Mobile. On launch, it now requires that you are logged into the Play Store. No more anonymous Android usage.
I emailed the developer with what I saw in adb logcat, they came back yesterday with this:
> I see your point. The new google verification code requires a google play account it seems. It works with some third party stores, but you need a google account..
> This is probably going to be the case for most apps in the future because Google is pushing for this feature to be enabled by default for all Google Play apps at submission time..
so that's the end of being able to grab apks via Aurora (an alternative, open source client for the play store), at least if the app has any sort of billing function which is not uncommon even for open source apps (think donations). Maybe this is Google's response to the requirement to feeling threatened by needing to give up the app repository monopoly?