Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs
A lack of confidence
Google has an answer for the most problematic elements of its verification plan, but wherever there is a gap, it is easy to see a plot. For what? Well, let’s look at the situation in which Google is.
The courts ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in the Play Store – he worked against the interests of developers and users for years to make Google the only viable source of Android applications, and for what? The Play Store is an almost unusable waste of sponsored search results and suggested applications, most of which are hardly more than purchasing factories in the application that deliver billions of Google dollars each year.
Google has all the reasons to protect the status quo (this can take the case to the Supreme Court), and now he has suddenly decided that the risk of safety of lateral flow applications must be treated. The way it is tackled Place Google in the driver’s seat at a time when alternative application stores can finally have a chance to prosper. All this is very practical for Google.
Internet developers express their distrust to give Google their personal information. Google, however, decided that anonymity was too risky. We now know a little more about how Google will manage the information he collects on the developers. Although information on Play Store developers is publicly listed, the video confirms that there will be no public list of key download developers. However, Google will have the information, which means that it could be required by the police or governments.
The current American administration had hardwords for applications like Iceblock, which she managed to draw from the Apple App Store. The new Google Centralized Control of the Distribution of Applications would allow similar censorship on Android, and the real identities of those who have developed such an application would also be in a Google database, ready to be assigned. A few years ago, the developers could have trusted Google with this data, but now? Good will has disappeared.
