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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ll still say that when it comes to developers, Apple is a much better experience than Google.

    On the App Store you can appeal if your app is rejected and you have an actual human on the other side to explain you what are the issues.

    On the Google Play, anything goes usually, but later if your account gets flagged by their automated system, you might 1) get a generic email with no explanation and a threat that you should fix it or the app will be taken down and your account get 1 out of 3 warnings; 2) get your account simply banned without explanation, losing all your services associated with Google forever with no appeal or anything you can do; 3) have your Google account simply disabled for supposedly being “associated” with some other account that was banned.

    Many of these horror stories can be found on the Android development subreddits and I suspect this is the result of the Play Store being a big target of malicious or scam apps constantly.










  • They won’t lose money if they lower prices of key products in one single store and just a bit lower than their competitor the moment it becomes a threat. And even if they did, they would make it up later by having the whole market share. It’s no different than, let’s say, Uber burning money initially to win against all competitors then raising prices when they become the default platform people trust.

    They know that after they have the market, it takes a significant upfront investment to bootstrap a competitor, which can only be done with investors money, which at that point won’t bet on the smaller company with a boring business model.