Google Play Pass quietly rolled out. Future for mobile apps?

The vast majority of games are simply unplayable. They have been ruined by ads and/or in-app purchases. I will certainly be subscribing when/if it comes to Australia.

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I keep reading horror stories about the approval process and related account banning

Really? I’m curious to hear more about this.

here’s one story https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/07/android_developer_account_banned_for_life/

if you search “androiddev ban” you can see a bunch of complaints on Reddit about the quickly changing developer requirements and how old apps that used SMS or Call log functionality were banned, old apps like Titanium Backup and Tasker were either banned or had to jump through several hoops to get approved even with less functionality.

And devs weren’t able to talk to anyone human they just kept getting banned by the algorithm. Not to mention accounts that they deemed related to the ones banned were also banned. It was an attempt to combat all the bad actors in the playstore but they used a blowtorch instead of a knife. Or something like that lol.

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