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> and you have no standing, How - how! - can you justify the statement that you have "no standing" when your income stream was arbitrarily cut off with no expl

• oliwarner 5y ago
  Google isn't an employer or a landlord here, they were the developers' agent (according to the distribution agreement). They simply exercised their rights to stop representing them. The developers have no expectation of representation or service when it's directly against Google's express will. There are so many transferable analogies here, but your wild and moral handwaving aside, I'm yet to hear why Google should have to let these developers sell through Google's marketplace, on Google's dime. If you put all your eggs into one big Google-shaped basket, your livelihood exists (and ends) at the whim of Google. Same applies to all the Apple devs this has happened to. And that's the developers' fault. I think you might argue that's unfair, you might argue that Google and Apple's and Valve's (etc) marketplaces should be classed as public utility services, and that the public should have access —and I might agree with you— but that's not currently the case. It's Google's ball and they're taking it home.