Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search

Re:Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search by dragonwriter on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:24PM (#8737900)

> Google changed the terms of the Developer Distribution Agreement, I don't believe Amazon was violating Google's terms when they initially put it in the play store.

Whether or not they were depends on what the "primary purpose" of the app was, which is very difficult to objectively determine (since there is no reason that the primary purpose has to be the most prominent function.)

Google changed the terms of the agreement in a way which made them much less ambiguous, which made the Amazon app clearly in violation rather than merely arguably in violation.

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Re:Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search by Dylan16807 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:54PM (#8738004)

Considering the menu option wasn't there for a long time, and was trivially removed from the new app, I don't see how anyone could argue it was the primary purpose.

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Re:Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search by fpgeek on Thursday December 11, 2014 @08:38PM (#8738170)

Well, considering how long they were separate and the little or no user benefit that came from merger of their app store and Amazon's other shopping app (especially post-Amazon SSO), it seems pretty clear that the primary purpose of the merged app was to sneak an otherwise prohibited app store past Google's terms, so...

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Re:Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search by Dylan16807 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:55PM (#8738503)

That's quite a stretch. The purpose of a particular update to an app is not the primary purpose of the app itself.

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