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Look at it from the other perspective - if Google doesn't police the Play Store then users are put at risk. When bad actors are detected, they're banned. It suc

Look at it from the other perspective - if Google doesn't police the Play Store then users are put at risk. When bad actors are detected, they're banned. It sucks if you've hired one of these bad actors to do development work for you, but that can't trump the need for users to be protected from malicious code. In an ideal world, code review of the app would reveal whether or not there's anything fishy going on. It doesn't seem like anyone has done this - not the OP, or Google. OP thinks their developers must be OK, and Google thinks (based on some past evidence) that they're not. This doesn't strike me as totally unreasonable on Google's part.

ashelmire 8y ago
I’ve seen enough posts like this that end with the developers being reinstated to doubt google here. They need to provide actual humans as resources to developers and companies. They take a huge cut, they should provide the service. But really we should move away from these app stores.
- dhimes 8y ago
  Agree. take a huge cut Exactly. It seems there should be some certain legal "level of expectation" that they will act in good faith for 30% (I'm guessing- I don't use them). But really we should move away from these app stores Yep. Which is why I have to guess at the 30%. I find this whole story very disturbing. I understand Google's need to protect their ecosystem from malicious code, and the desire to ban developers who try to do harm (although I suspect that the real bad actors find work-arounds for the bans), but I can't help thinking that this isn't the way a good (morally) company would behave. I guess it points to way more developers out there than Google needs in order to have a vibrant ecosystem, so if they burn through some percentage it isn't worth their time. It makes me think of fishermen who fished ruthlessly and perhaps wastefully when the ocean harvest was plentiful. Years later, however, those fishermen face some dire times, with perhaps more ahead, because the harvest is more modest and future harvests are threatened.
- tokyodude 8y ago
  I don't know if Google gets a huge cut now but they certainly didn't start that way. Originally when Android shipped Google took 30% but only got 5%, the other 25% went to the carrier. The fact that they only got 5% apparently meant they were barely covering costs. That maybe have changed in the last 10 years but I don't think it has. The help on it says > The remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees. In other words Google is not getting 30% https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/112622?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... > But really we should move away from these app stores. Agreed
  - distances 8y ago
    My carrier has nothing to do with which phone I chose and use, so I highly doubt it's true at least outside of the big US operators.
donatzsky 8y ago
The problem here isn't that Google terminated the account (which seems reasonable, given the circumstances), but that's its essentially impossible to have it reinstated because there's no real appeals process.

ashelmire 8y ago

I’ve seen enough posts like this that end with the developers being reinstated to doubt google here. They need to provide actual humans as resources to developers and companies. They take a huge cut, they should provide the service. But really we should move away from these app stores.

dhimes 8y ago
Agree. take a huge cut Exactly. It seems there should be some certain legal "level of expectation" that they will act in good faith for 30% (I'm guessing- I don't use them). But really we should move away from these app stores Yep. Which is why I have to guess at the 30%. I find this whole story very disturbing. I understand Google's need to protect their ecosystem from malicious code, and the desire to ban developers who try to do harm (although I suspect that the real bad actors find work-arounds for the bans), but I can't help thinking that this isn't the way a good (morally) company would behave. I guess it points to way more developers out there than Google needs in order to have a vibrant ecosystem, so if they burn through some percentage it isn't worth their time. It makes me think of fishermen who fished ruthlessly and perhaps wastefully when the ocean harvest was plentiful. Years later, however, those fishermen face some dire times, with perhaps more ahead, because the harvest is more modest and future harvests are threatened.
tokyodude 8y ago
I don't know if Google gets a huge cut now but they certainly didn't start that way. Originally when Android shipped Google took 30% but only got 5%, the other 25% went to the carrier. The fact that they only got 5% apparently meant they were barely covering costs. That maybe have changed in the last 10 years but I don't think it has. The help on it says > The remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees. In other words Google is not getting 30% https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/112622?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... > But really we should move away from these app stores. Agreed
- distances 8y ago
  My carrier has nothing to do with which phone I chose and use, so I highly doubt it's true at least outside of the big US operators.

donatzsky 8y ago

The problem here isn't that Google terminated the account (which seems reasonable, given the circumstances), but that's its essentially impossible to have it reinstated because there's no real appeals process.