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Bummer for the developer, but bad stuff happens randomly to people. Google is able to operate because of the scale of automation they use. I use Google services
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
Bummer for the developer, but bad stuff happens randomly to people. Google is able to operate because of the scale of automation they use. I use Google services but often back up my data.
For this developer, as someone else said, Fdroid is a possibility. Same problem as with Apple’s store. I have one app on Apple’s store, but it is free and simply an example program for a book I might finish writing someday.
I would feel nervous depending on either company’s App Store for my livelihood.
- cybrox 5y agoThese two companies destroy thousands of businesses with each update of their policies or operating systems and we have just come to accept, in some cases even endorse, this tragic state of affairs.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI agree. I know two women who both had their businesses tank because of changes to SEO policies. I guess what I was getting at is that there is so much uncertainty dealing with huge mostly automated corporations, that we must be adaptable, “antifragile”.
- Pxtl 5y agoI never thought Microsoft would turn out to be the good guys but here we are.
- weberer 5y agoMicrosoft are definitely not the good guys. They're just as awful, but happen to have failed in the phone space. The true good guys are the ones developing open source phones and operating systems, like you see with the Pinephone.