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Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by IvanK_net on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:40AM (#41728209)
I am the creator of a photo editor www.photopea.com, used by around 1 million people every day (of which 300,000 use Android, 150,000 use iOS). After reading this article, I am so happy that I never spent a single hour trying to publish my tool at the "mobile stores" :D
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by zwnow on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:45AM (#41728236)
Amazing tool, use it every week! Buuuut reading the main article it just sounds like the autor didn't want to take responsibility for their games. Like it's even required by law to provide your address, email and so on in Germany if you only own a website. Continuing, it's to me very obvious to target the latest Android releases. I don't see the issue this person has.
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by immibis on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:21AM (#41728857)
This is only for commercial websites.
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by zwnow on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:00AM (#41729080)
Sure but it's considered a commercial website pretty quickly. It's enough to recommend something to make it possibly commercial.
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by johnnyanmac on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:01AM (#41775512)
many obvious reasons (I'm in the US and the last thing I want to provide to the world is my phone number for MORE stupid spam. My address is absolutely out of the question, not in these times. It sounds alarmist until you get physical death threats from people that may or may not have to even do with your app).

But for reference, this author is in the Neverlands and things that seem trivial for US businesses are apparently more involved over there. These small 30 euro costs aren't worth it to update some 10 year old app you'd only update if you just needed some trivial migration updates.

Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by akww on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:01AM (#41728343)
Like the others, thank you! We would use it in our introductory collage class in College (per the professors recommendation)
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by jasonvorhe on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:50AM (#41728268)
Just a quick thank you for making and running photopea. Back when ChromeOS didn't run anything but web apps, Photopea was a godsend. I haven't used or thought about it since but I'll check it out again if the need ever arises.
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by ioulian on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:48AM (#41728258)
Can't thank you enough for photopea. Very good (and impressive) job that you've done with it! It's very useful as a frontend developer that wants to quickly edit an image!
Re:Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store by napolux on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:54AM (#41728306)
you're one of my heroes :)