Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
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Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#2Seems malicious on Google's part since middle finger is official unicode
Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#3I use Gboard, and today it had a strange prompt on the bar above the keyboard: "Do you like typing German?".. I was curious and I pressed it, it lead to a prompt where there was text I could copy paste and I guess post on my social media, about how much I enjoy using Gboard...
So you fucking want me to advertise for you, Google? And for what reason? Does someone want their promotion/bonus and for that they have to reach x downloads?
In fact I'm going to go to the Play Store and give them a shitty review...
Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#4So Google is selectively oppressing certain app developers by using the "Rules for thee, not for me" ideology.
Well, they've been doing it for years and that's why there's people in the US Government talking about anti-trust investigations... Hopefully something comes of it.
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#5Didn't install the app, but one look at the screenshot of the Fleksy in Playstore shows "earn coins as you type" feature. It also offers in app purchases, but didn't bother to install to check which.
I know many apps use coin system, but in many cases it's just a children manipulation.
Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#6Seems malicious on Google's part since middle finger is official unicode
I'm guessing it is more that the different teams do not talk to each other, and Google must not have a good, standard review process.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#8Let's not be distracted from the fact that the middle finger emoji actually exists.
Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#9Seems malicious on Google's part since middle finger is official unicode
I'm guessing it is more that the different teams do not talk to each other, and Google must not have a good, standard review process. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
That would still be institutionally malicious, if not the result of malice by any single person involved.
Having a separate review system that provides different and more favourable treatment for (equivalent) internal apps is in and of itself an abuse of the store.
Re: Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
#10I use Gboard, and today it had a strange prompt on the bar above the keyboard: "Do you like typing German?".. I was curious and I pressed it, it lead to a prompt where there was text I could copy paste and I guess post on my social media, about how much I enjoy using Gboard... So you fucking want me to advertise for you, Google? And for what reason? Does someone want their promotion/bonus and for that they have to re…
Pretty standard method to obtain new users, but I don't think Google is unable to advertise their keyboard on their own.