<story><title>Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”</title><url>https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommilukkarinen</author><text>This is the other side of the Play-store problem. The other side is the tax.&lt;p&gt;Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time. The reason can be &amp;#x27;new policy&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;misunderstanding&amp;#x27; or something more problematic, such as influence from your competitor to the employee.&lt;p&gt;A &amp;#x27;power to destroy business&amp;#x27;, should not be a click away from some random employee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LorenPechtel</author><text>And they can even do it inadvertently.  I&amp;#x27;ve run into multiple examples recently due to the Android file system becoming ever more locked down.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the vast majority of apps have no business writing to any location other than their own storage, and in general even reading other areas should be subject to severe restrictions.&lt;p&gt;However, there are some apps that have a *legitimate* need to be able to wander freely through the file system.  Specifically, apps whose purpose in life is dealing with files.&lt;p&gt;The latest run-in I&amp;#x27;ve had with this:  The Goodsync Android client, which now appears to be basically useless.  It&amp;#x27;s a file synchronization tool, what good is it if it can&amp;#x27;t wander where the user wants it to?  Now I have to plug my phone into the computer to do the same task (the file system lockdown doesn&amp;#x27;t apply to access from the PC) that I used to be able to do simply by having the phone in the room.</text></comment>
<story><title>Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”</title><url>https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommilukkarinen</author><text>This is the other side of the Play-store problem. The other side is the tax.&lt;p&gt;Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time. The reason can be &amp;#x27;new policy&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;misunderstanding&amp;#x27; or something more problematic, such as influence from your competitor to the employee.&lt;p&gt;A &amp;#x27;power to destroy business&amp;#x27;, should not be a click away from some random employee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjrose</author><text>On the plus side there are multiple app stores for the android and the ability to simply install your app directly to the device. So even if Google play store bans you outright you aren&amp;#x27;t dead in the water.&lt;p&gt;Now that being said. If you are dependent on google for revenues...</text></comment>