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While probably the right move (no need to take responsibility for an app that is going to anger labels when your platform allows sideload), Doesn't this indica

While probably the right move (no need to take responsibility for an app that is going to anger labels when your platform allows sideload), Doesn't this indicate that Google admits potential culpability and concedes that it is their responsibility to police what goes into their app store? Seems a better approach would have been to shrug their shoulders and argue that the Android app store is merely an open conduit, not their curated set of apps. The implication is that they concede responsibility for whatever they don't remove.

bostonpete 16y ago
> The implication is that they concede responsibility for whatever they don't remove. I'm not sure I agree. Just because Google is asserting the right to remove apps from the store (e.g. to keep strategic partners from flipping out) doesn't mean that they're conceding that they're under any obligation to do so.
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  * ... doesn't mean that they're conceding that they're under any obligation to do so.* Maybe not, but it seems like the kind of crack in the door a lawyer might jump at next time someone complains that an app offends them, or is copying their idea, or whatever.