Assuming all those apps, like "ABC News" and "Fox News" and the like, are unauthorized, I'm not exactly surprised. There are plenty of parts of the developer content policy and the distribution agreement that forbid using other companies' trademarks and other rights. Google wouldn't even have had to discover it themselves, they likely would have been contacted by Fox News or one of the other parties having its name used. There's also the "create a spammy user experience, whether by posting repetitive content ..." prohibition. If that huge number of news apps is really just the same source code with a different icon and RSS URL it might fall under that restriction in the content policy.
On Sep 10, 4:38 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a developer named Innksoft that had 26 apps on the market. > Some of them with over 50,000 downloads. Now there are zero apps on > the market for this developer. > > http://www.cyrket.com/search?q=innksoft > > Does anyone have a clue what happened to this dev? > > I think they went missing sometime after 9/7/10. > > -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
