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We want to increase trust and transparency on Google Play. Also reduce the number of people contacting us about problems with apps in the Play Store.
So we are going to publish your email and phone number so they can bother you directly, leaving us to enjoy peace and quiet, and be able to play games in the office.
and to earn much more money for doing simply nothing...
With which update in the last 2 years has Google really innovatively expanded the Android operating system? Not a single update even comes close to fulfilling this claim.
Whereas Google developers used to be innovative and incorporated new technologies into the operating system, they have now reached a dead end and are only trying to maximise profits without taking any risks. I fear that these developers will soon be replaced by AI. And then there will only be updates with new fancy colours, everything will turn around itself even faster and implode in the end.
Thinking too negatively? What used to be an innovative operating system, where, for example, you could find a certain setting option really quickly with a logical combination and also change it, will become an unmanageable conglomeration of cross-references and links. Important settings can be found somewhere where one would not expect them at all or not at all any more. The same applies in a similar way to Windows 11. Apparently, user ergonomics has become a foreign word for the developers these days...
Only the human mind can produce innovative solutions. AI will only be able to copy and make very good cross-connections for solutions. Nothing more. At least not in the foreseeable future.
Only ever new regulations for app developers as well as curtailment and restriction of established functions for alleged security reasons.
In this case, security does not mean the security of an individual user against the hacking of his or her mobile phone, but rather:
- Security that even the most absurd advertising really reaches the end customer.
- Security that the end user will have to buy a new device at ever faster intervals (preferably a Google device, of course).
- Security that more and more legal regulations are the responsibility of the programmer and not of Google.
I hope that many developers will finally boycott Google and no longer publish apps on Google Play. I've had enough of this theatre for a long time and only publish my apps via my website. You can't earn money with it. For me, programming has always been fun. But such coercive measures simply take the joy out of it for me. Why should I support such a company? And this will go on and on...
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND...
