I had a similar response when developing Polar but for Electron and the MS app store. I write a few posts about it here: https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/13/mi

I had a similar response when developing Polar but for Electron and the MS app store. I write a few posts about it here: https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/13/microsoft-blocking-electron-apps-from-app-store.html https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/13/microsoft-blocking-electr... https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-block-apps-lead-with-the-carrot.html https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-bloc... It took me four weeks to unblock me and I finally had a chance to re-publish to the MS app store and I'm waiting for their final approval of my app. YES.. I can develop the app without being in an app store , but my distribution will be dramatically reduced. Doesn't make sense to have an app with no users. Google is probably not actually targeting this app specifically just that they've been insanely incompetent lately and screwing over developers ALL over the ecosystem including Android, Chrome Extensions, etc. Our chrome extension continues to need approval every time we publish it EVEN if we just update the assets/images. Google is really dropping the ball and pissing off developers left and right. Over at /r/androiddev people are actually talking about protests at Google IO...