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Does Google not have an app approval process when a developer wants to submit an app to the store? Surely the resubmission of a banned app would be detected at
by robhu 11y ago
Does Google not have an app approval process when a developer wants to submit an app to the store? Surely the resubmission of a banned app would be detected at that step?
- FussyZeus 11y agoAndroid dev here: There is virtually no submission review. As long as the bundle ID is correct I could upload pretty much whatever I wanted, the only things they check for are matching bundle ID's, correct version numbers, basically anything that could damage the Play store in some technical fashion. Everything else is up for the users to report, which is why the Play store is FLUSH with garbage apps. Windows Phone doesn't seem a ton better, the only ones that have any handle on crapware are Apple, and even then it isn't as good as it used to be.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoiPhone user here. You must not have an iPhone or iPad. The App Store is littered with crapware.
- FussyZeus 11y agoI have both. I'm not saying it's the Eden of apps (Like I said, especially recently the App Review seems very lax) but the ratio of crap to useful apps is much better in the App Store in my experience.
- fixermark 11y agoIt's a control / scale issue. Apple clamps harder on apps that infringe on its rules (it appears they have humans in the loop doing some active checking, if "My app got banned for ridiculous reasons" stories that hit HN periodically are to be believed). But Apple's developer base is so much larger that the amount of work needed to control against crap is proportionately higher.
- hyperpape 11y agoIt's true that there is crapware in the iOS app store, but this app would face at least some pain there. Since there's app review, you couldn't have the app taken down then just upload it again without waiting through the long process of app review.