Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only source of income.
Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to be your only source of income. But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers using it. But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all the apps that have these specifics in their code. - "That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a five star rating and no complaints" - "Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !!" For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : android-market-support AT google.com I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. Good luck. Yahel On 14 juin, 10:57, "n.a" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Guys and Google, > I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the > Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, > top 50 in the overall applications ranking). > > Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without > any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the news > that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market > (http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... > ) and decided to write you. > > Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be resolved > soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one > year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create > one of the best android applications on the market. Although a > flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard > on android, because the different hardware vendors have different > camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start > the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In > the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android > devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on > these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. > I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few > applications, which supports all android versions on the market - 1.5, > 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight > application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip (all > Android 1.5). > > Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the > investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been > written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, > but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any > malware in their distributed SDKs). > > I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny > Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market and > I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into > this. > > I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the whole > account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users and > ranking position. > > http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
