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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by alisonkisk on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:22PM (#29968924)
This is good. It will tie the fates of small time customers/users to the elites, so the situation gets fixed or the business collapses.
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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by wongarsu on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:24PM (#29969806)
I agree. A process that's broken for everyone gets fixed. A process that can be worked around by everyone who has the power to get it changed can stay broken indefinitely.
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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by thaumasiotes on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:45PM (#29970893)
> A process that's broken for everyone gets fixed. A process that can be worked around by everyone who has the power to get it changed can stay broken indefinitely.

OK, but the only processes that are broken for everyone are processes that are mandatory for everyone. Using a different process is a perfectly workable way to get around a broken process.

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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by smt88 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:20PM (#29970592)
Google has many processes that are broken for everyone and don't get fixed. That's why monopolies are bad.
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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by freedomben on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:08PM (#29970434)
Agreed. The current state is the most awful for the powerless. At least this change evens the playing field a bit so that when $HUGE_CORP gets burned they will raise enough hell to (hopefully) fix the process.
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Re:Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A st... by ocdtrekkie on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#29970794)
Occasionally this happens, see Epic Games, and then the $HUGER_CORP has their security teams look for spurious "vulnerabilities" and then uses their PR team to have them dragged through the mud, etc.
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