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I find it extremely scary to make business with Google. Their robot would get your account banned, all cloud, play and every other thing with it. Every hour it
by Svoka 8y ago
I find it extremely scary to make business with Google. Their robot would get your account banned, all cloud, play and every other thing with it. Every hour it is banned would be lost money and lost customers.
This is not my problem, really. It is Google's public image as I seen it soulless support for last 10 years, and stories like this pop up time to time. Too sad they pretty much locked in Android app market, and with every version it is harder and harder to sideload apps. I am not using any Google cloud services if I can find alternative.
I understand that it may be my perception, but I do not understand why company would build such image of itself.
- jasonvorhe 8y agoGCP will no longer just shut down your projects without a human approval.
- Svoka 8y agoWhat about my google account? Would it run, but I won't be able to access it? I think Google lost trust, which is hard thing to get back. I just speaking how I feel. And I don't get such feel using AWS.
- aepiepaey 8y agoBut they will still keep your credit card number forever if you ever give it to them. Once it's been added, it can't be removed. They claim it's for auditing purposes, but those "auditing purposes" shouldn't require keeping it attached to the account as an active payment method (which is what they enforce).
- stjohnswarts 8y agoYeah they could totally keep it for no more than 2 or 3 months and 99.999% of any problems with "auditing" would also be handled.
- kabacha 8y agoEch at least on android you can easily install apps outside of google play. _I_ find it scary to make business with as you can be pretty much _snapped_ out of existance in a single decision.
- simonh 8y agoI don't really follow the argument. If you are a commercial company, the Play store is pretty much all that matters in terms of business viability. At a commercial level, the fact a few geeks can side-load apps is next to irrelevant. Who builds a business on side-loaded apps?
- Conan_Kudo 8y agoEpic Games, apparently.
- majewsky 8y agoAnd whatever the Amazon Fire devices use as an app store.
- Kye 8y agoAmazon runs its own app store. It took years even with their resources to make it useful. Developers originally tossed up buggy, incomplete, and/or outdated versions of their Android apps just to say they had one on Kindle Fire.
- dingaling 8y agoAnd WhatsApp, direct download on their website
- ses1984 8y agoThe alternative to google play would presumably be the apple app store which, if they ban you, there is no side channel. If your desire is to build a mobile app, you don't really have a lot of options.
- lern_too_spel 8y ago> with every version it is harder and harder to sideload apps Really? How?
- rangerpolitic 8y agoDon't build mobile apps. Build web apps.
- dotancohen 8y agoI believe that you will have a harder time collecting the user's contact list and GPS data with a web app, not to mention showing advertising on the user's lock screen.
- qwerty456127 8y ago> I find it extremely scary to make business with Google Isn't Apple scarier? They can block your app for particular country and if they do there is no way around. > and with every version it is harder and harder to sideload apps How is it hard to click a link on an app author's website and press "allow"? And there also is F-Droid. Google is by orders of magnitude better than Apple in this way.