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The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
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Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#112MAYBE operating systems shouldn't have gatekeepers which can deny access to billions of customers for any and no reason at all. Apple and Google are WELL past due for regulation in this space. The fact that we cannot download and install software from the internet onto our phones JUST like we can do with our computers is a symbol of our inept and ineffective politicians. And before someone says "well akshully you can…
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many of us have routinely cleaned computers from adults that installed several Ask Jeeves and Yahoo toolbars.
At some point computers need to stop being treated as magical boxes that no reasonable person can learn how to use safely. We expect people who use cars to learn how to use them safely, we expect people who use lawnmowers to not stick their fingers in them. Computers have been a part of daily life for normies for decades at this point, it's infantilizing to suggest that average, non-tech savvy people can't learn to u…
Well, computers first stop being magical machines that no person can learn how to use safely, then.
And, honestly, if you think the endpoint safety problem doesn't apply to you, you are part of the problem.
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#114I'm not familiar with this space (new to Android), could someone explain why there hasn't been additional "app stores" appear that people can use?
There have been, but most non-technical users don't care or don't go through the hassle of using them.
Is there any that I should be looking into?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your complaint about Android .apk install is... similar to unsigned software installs on Windows in some cases (not a great argument, I know, but the same as the vast majority of users would be used to). As for SmartTube, their keys were compromised. Inconvenient, but it wasn't about hostility to self-installed applications.
The main difference is that signing a Windows binary doesn't require any third party review of the app content.
Signing an APK also doesn't require third party review of the app content.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Web apps can't fully replace native apps. This would be a bandaid fix, we need a fully open ecosystem for apps, like what is available on PCs. Native apps can run offline, they can be much more deeply integrated into the OS (you can't have a web app Android launcher, for instance), and they have a performance overhead due to having more layers between them and the hardware, which is important for games or anything co…
I have high hopes for the Rust UI ecosystem in this regard. It's implementing pretty much everything from scratch, which means that it should be able to support a standalone GUI ecosystem that doesn't depend on a system GUI toolkit being available (while also being able to target existing OS's).
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#117With Signal, the biggest issue we have is that review times are extremely inconsistent. Sometimes it's 4 hours, sometimes it's 5 days, and there's no visibility as to why. Our working theory is that there's automated and manual queues, and occasionally, for whatever reason, we fall into the manual queue. But when you work on an app that has weekly updates, randomly getting hit with a review time of several days reall…
Has it ever happened where your submission goes to review and then just sits in the "In Review" state for many days? I am talking 4-5 days? or sometimes longer than a week? And then it gets approved?
That's been happening randomly to me.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many of us have routinely cleaned computers from adults that installed several Ask Jeeves and Yahoo toolbars.
At some point computers need to stop being treated as magical boxes that no reasonable person can learn how to use safely. We expect people who use cars to learn how to use them safely, we expect people who use lawnmowers to not stick their fingers in them. Computers have been a part of daily life for normies for decades at this point, it's infantilizing to suggest that average, non-tech savvy people can't learn to u…
Using a computer wrong doesn't kill people.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#119FWIW, this has not been my experience. Google Play usually approves within 24 hours for me still. Apple has been taking over a week though.
When Shopify announced their shift from React Native, this is actually what was on top of mind for me. Week+ delays for critical bugfixes is insane. Being able to patch things with OTA updates is tablestakes at this point.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#120Interestingly, I published a completely new app yesterday, and it was reviewed and published in less than 2 hours.