Comment by josephcsible
4 years ago
So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do? Aren't your only choices to put all of your eggs in Google/Apple's baskets?
4 years ago
So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do? Aren't your only choices to put all of your eggs in Google/Apple's baskets?
The answer is simple don't make a mobile game. Write a web app or desktop application.
It is the same as console games or anywhere someone else controls the platform.
I am generally following that advice.
IMO the fact that this is the best path is clear evidence that we need mobile app store reform. It's mind boggling to me that people still defend this status quo
If control was somehow wrestled from them a second golden age of mobile apps would emerge.
To what extend could one use a website instead of an app?
Depends on the app in question. OP is about a gaming company so using a website isn't a serious option.
> So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do?
Not hire someone who had been banned before due to ad fraud.
This is some next level victim blaming for something that we don’t know happened, and can easily be handled by adults with communication channels.
It’s not as if devs go around with a visible scarlet letter for any malfeasance they get into. Nor is it reasonable brand people permanently.
TIL someone who bans you for life is forced to do business with you.
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In some parts of the world, that would be discriminatory against ex-convicts. If a person has been convicted and has served their penance, you are not allowed to use that fact in decisions concerning them.
Besides, why should we allow corporations to run their own private justice system?
In which part of the world aren't you allowed to do this?
> In some parts of the world, that would be discriminatory against ex-convicts.
Please name the part of the world where I am required to hire a former bank robber to manage my bank.
Ah. That explains why job applications often don't have the line where you check next to a box to indicate if you've ever been convicted of a crime.
Oh wait. They do.
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How do you know if a person you hire was banned before?
Google isn't even telling you that that's what happened. Also as a developer who used to use ads until 5 years ago, I got a wrongful 1 month suspension claiming I was clicking my own ads even though I never did. It's obviously my words vs theirs but I know what my truth is. Yet Google claimed I was clicking my own ads and therefore gave me a 1 month suspension. That convinced me to stop using ads all together and since then, I have become even more reluctant to build Android apps. I just work on iOS apps instead. I hadn't built any android apps for past 5 years except last month when I finally built one because I was getting many user requests to have one.
I guess you missed all those stories of Apple doing the same thing to developers... even going as far as to shut down accounts when they want to use the features from their apps in the next version of iOS.
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Do you think such people go around advertising that fact?
Don't