A bit tangential, but I cannot figure out what does the OP app actually do
Is it for E2EE chat? For shared diagrams? For shared calendar? It seem to do everything, including... turning B&W photos into colors?
Cannot figure this out.
My app just got removed with no prior warning
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Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.? Well, because you aren't twitter. Expecting google to treat indie dev the same as multibillion dollar corporations would be stupid. World isn't fair place and crying after fairness is often waste of time. This kind of blog post might affect the situation and I think it makes sense to make it in polite way. However my default assumption would…
Please sir can I have some more? Demanding some level of fairness in specific well thought out regulation is exactly the solution to a lot of these problems. It's a tried and true method of reeling in bad actors and imposing some checks and balances. Realistically, no you can't expect to get the attention of Twitter, but officially it must be the case that they have to at least give real effort to maintaining some me…
This isn't how it works.
Every business tranches it's partners and customers, it's both fair and normative.
If you a a huge customer of XYZ, they're going to treat you differently than if you're not.
As long as they are acting within their own guidelines etc. then this is fine.
I think G. should probably give some notice for GPlay violations, but in my experience they do for these things.
If you don't have a 'Privacy' URL in your GPlay listing that's going to have been flagged for a while in my experience.
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably shouldn't be running a public service with a privacy policy and no lawyer.
What horribly impractical advice. I mean, in theory, sure, but retaining a lawyer because you run a small public service? Nah.
I think the point being made is that the company shouldn't be making up legally binding agreements (the privacy policy) without consultation.
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#74Does anyone have advice on how to safely "decouple" your personal @gmail.com account from your Android and GCP developer account? I'd like to delete my GCP and Android developer account, but I'm worried the process will inadvertently delete my personal gmail as well. Shame on me for using it to login in to these types of accounts in the first place :(
I used my personal email to create an Apple Developer account. Then, when I stopped paying for that account - I was unable to use the free level Apple Developer services.
So now, I would have to setup a whole other Apple ID and configure that in XCode, Expo, etc. in order to just install a program on my own device.
I contacted Apple about this a few times but nobody I was able to get in contact with was able to help me and I don't even think they understood the issue to begin with.
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#75why were you collecting private data without notifying the user? some severe violations like this prompt immediate removal imo
I wasn't
All data collected (email address which can be masked and name and surname which can be made up) was properly stated in the privacy policy
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#76We have approached a technology evolution segment where Facebook pages replace small business websites as discoverability is simply better than on own blog as small players are SEO handy capped.
Same goes for devs with indie games,they need to be on high traffic platforms to survive.
YouTube videos as well.
The above-mentioned are fb, google and apple, they can all cut you off the platform with almost no way to speak to a human for case review.
The e commerce platforms have a bit less of an irreversible way of doing things and you can get hold of human support.
I am not sure what is the right way to go on about, but maybe force some companies to offer human operated support?
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
What horribly impractical advice. I mean, in theory, sure, but retaining a lawyer because you run a small public service? Nah.
I think the point being made is that the company shouldn't be making up legally binding agreements (the privacy policy) without consultation.
And if too small/cheap to have consulted a solicitor, are you really saying none is better than 'made up'?
Worst case is what, you miss something you should've included and it bites you? Something you thought covered you turned out not to be binding (because it's otherwise illegal or too narrowly defined or whatever)?
Seems to me many small side projects or whatever would do well (and zero harm) to 'make up' user agreements sooner.
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#78We have approached a technology evolution segment where Facebook pages replace small business websites as discoverability is simply better than on own blog as small players are SEO handy capped. Same goes for devs with indie games,they need to be on high traffic platforms to survive. YouTube videos as well. The above-mentioned are fb, google and apple, they can all cut you off the platform with almost no way to speak…
You might get human support in ecommerce but most of the time they cant help you and keep sending you the same bullshit emails requiring you to send in a “plan of action”, which doesnt make any sense when you don’t really know why you got banned.
Re: My app just got removed with no prior warning
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please sir can I have some more? Demanding some level of fairness in specific well thought out regulation is exactly the solution to a lot of these problems. It's a tried and true method of reeling in bad actors and imposing some checks and balances. Realistically, no you can't expect to get the attention of Twitter, but officially it must be the case that they have to at least give real effort to maintaining some me…
> The actual question is why Google or Apple's App Store is special? Why can a bank pick and choose who they give loans to but the app walled gardens are in the wrong. I think we probably have the same general idea about this question, but I don't have a really solid answer. Because they have spent untold millions since 2008 buying ads telling consumers that apps are the only way. Flash is dangerous. PWAs are dangero…
What? Google spends (idk how much) money promoting PWAs. Just look at https://web.dev
Sure, maybe the Android division has a strategic preference for Android apps, but.. what would you expect, really?