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It's worse on android. You'll lose access to every google account you have (email, photos, drive) and if you circumvent by creating a new account and are caught
by ngngngng 7y ago
It's worse on android. You'll lose access to every google account you have (email, photos, drive) and if you circumvent by creating a new account and are caught then you will be banned again as well as all of the accounts that are associated with the new account. This could potentially destroy an entire business if they hire a banned individual and get their entire company banned because of it.
- est31 7y agoActually this makes me wonder if in 20 years you become unemployable if you had your account banned for whatever reason.
- reaperducer 7y agoPossibly. Government agencies (Australia most recently) are starting to require citizens to use e-mail addresses from "trusted" partners. Google is one of those partners.
- parliament32 7y agoWell this is certainly news. Lots of us use self hosted email or just whitelabelled domains. Can you link to a source or more info?
- mr__y 7y agoI'm pretty sure that already in 2019 losing a linkedin accout might have serious effect on your career. Not completely unemployable, of course but this could have significant impact in some industries
- JohnFen 7y agoI don't think this is true at all, or at least not outside of certain niches. I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago, and doing that had exactly no discernable impact on my career.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoIt means I'd stop getting bothered by clueless recruiters multiple times per day, which can only be a net benefit.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt's completely possible to get a job without a LinkedIn account.
- JohnFen 7y agoBut you don't actually need any access to Google's stuff to develop for Android, so Google can't lock you out and destroy your business. Google can just cause a lot of inconvenience.
- Spivak 7y agoI mean you can still develop and publish your APKs online but not being on the Play Store is enough to kill most apps. I mean if you're so popular/useful that users will seek you out independently you might be okay but there are a lot of shops where the store is their only marketing funnel.
- JohnFen 7y agoNot being in the Play store means that you have to actually engage in marketing. This increases the cost and hassle, of course. > there are a lot of shops where the store is their only marketing funnel. Any business that only has one "funnel" is a business at risk, whether the Play store is involved or not.
- ronsor 7y ago>a lot of inconvenience If that's what you call it, but business have had their paid Google Apps accounts nuked, and critical data lost. Publishing on Play is basically mandatory to get users.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Publishing on Play is basically mandatory to get users. Being on Play is an enormous advantage, there's no question. Whether or not it's mandatory probably depends on what sort of app it is, though. There are successful apps that aren't in the Play store. But being successful without being in the Play store requires a larger marketing effort.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoCan you cite any real world examples of this happening?
- Terretta 7y agoIronically, Google them. (And plenty here on HN for a decade now.)
- postsantum 7y agoPlenty of them on /r/androiddev. Search by "suspended"