Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?

Google deleted a guys app that he wrote 14 years ago that tells you if it's Tuesday

Any company that gets big enough to start having policies for everything is automatically no longer fun. The people who get hired to make policies are not fun people.

I hope that this is having an opposite effect where people are starting to step outside of the walled gardens to look for "the good stuff". Google pulled this shit with us too a few years ago by attempting to force us to share our signing keys. We ignored them and told our users to download the APK from our website instead which they happily did. Then, Google bumped the minimum API version and new versions of Android refused to launch apps that were not updated. Our users found workarounds before we did, by using some kind of obscure adb command. The new API bump introduced some needless asinine changes that seemed to exist just to please some PM at Google. Enough is enough.

One way to avoid this is to embrace open standards.

If you're going to put your stuff into one of the proprietary phone/tablet app stores today, it is important to make sure you can look yourself in the mirror and say, "I know this is probably a bad way for society, but I think I can get more money this way, at least in the short term." So at least you know what you're doing.

The longer that people sell out, the harder it will be for society to dig itself out.