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"Blockchain-Based Experiences on Google Play": Google Graveyard here we come

by thesuperbigfrog 3y ago

p4bl0 3y ago
I give it less than a year to be gone forever.
- UncleMeat 3y ago
  It's a policy change. Google isn't releasing anything.
  - bhaney 3y ago
    Half a year then
    - UncleMeat 3y ago
      I get that it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense at this point.
      - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
        >> it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense Google's "product strategy" is nonsense. If it does not feed ads or doesn't make billions per year, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Google will lose interest and kill it. This has happened so often that it is reliable how poor Google is at maintaining products and providing customer service. It is a reputation that Google has earned through its repeated actions and choices.
        UncleMeat 3y ago
        Right. And that has absolutely nothing to do with policy changes on Play.
jsnell 3y ago
You do realize this is not a product, right?
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
  >> You do realize this is not a product, right? Policies get rescinded just like products and services get shutdown.
  - nomel 3y ago
    Reference, for a Google policy changing enough to allow then wipe out an entire segment of games/apps on the Play store? It's a genuine question. I can't find anything, but it could be.
    - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
      >> a Google policy changing enough to allow then wipe out an entire segment of games/apps on the Play store? No. Changes for what is allowed and how things work. Those happen whenever Google wants them to.
      - nomel 3y ago
        Do you have an example, that's similar to this scale, so I can better understand? I think scale is important. Banning an entire classification of apps would be in the "large" end of things.
        thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
        Here is a policy change that impacted many apps and happened not too long ago: https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-play-store-to-get-rid-of-nearly-900000-abandoned-apps https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-play-sto... Apps that were not updated in the last two years were declared "abandoned" and removed. Again, this is not about how apps are categorized / classified, but rather what apps are allowed to do or not and how apps are managed in the App Store. Google can simply decide that a feature is allowed or disallowed and force apps to change or the apps can be removed. This is part of the reason that alternative app stores exist.

"Blockchain-Based Experiences on Google Play": Google Graveyard here we come

p4bl0 3y ago

I give it less than a year to be gone forever.

UncleMeat 3y ago
It's a policy change. Google isn't releasing anything.
- bhaney 3y ago
  Half a year then
  - UncleMeat 3y ago
    I get that it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense at this point.
    - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
      >> it is fun to shit on Google for having a disaster of a product strategy, but this is just nonsense Google's "product strategy" is nonsense. If it does not feed ads or doesn't make billions per year, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Google will lose interest and kill it. This has happened so often that it is reliable how poor Google is at maintaining products and providing customer service. It is a reputation that Google has earned through its repeated actions and choices.
      - UncleMeat 3y ago
        Right. And that has absolutely nothing to do with policy changes on Play.

jsnell 3y ago

You do realize this is not a product, right?

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
>> You do realize this is not a product, right? Policies get rescinded just like products and services get shutdown.
- nomel 3y ago
  Reference, for a Google policy changing enough to allow then wipe out an entire segment of games/apps on the Play store? It's a genuine question. I can't find anything, but it could be.
  - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
    >> a Google policy changing enough to allow then wipe out an entire segment of games/apps on the Play store? No. Changes for what is allowed and how things work. Those happen whenever Google wants them to.
    - nomel 3y ago
      Do you have an example, that's similar to this scale, so I can better understand? I think scale is important. Banning an entire classification of apps would be in the "large" end of things.
      - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
        Here is a policy change that impacted many apps and happened not too long ago: https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-play-store-to-get-rid-of-nearly-900000-abandoned-apps https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-play-sto... Apps that were not updated in the last two years were declared "abandoned" and removed. Again, this is not about how apps are categorized / classified, but rather what apps are allowed to do or not and how apps are managed in the App Store. Google can simply decide that a feature is allowed or disallowed and force apps to change or the apps can be removed. This is part of the reason that alternative app stores exist.