Google Bots Decide The Fate Of Android Developers

In the community of Android developers publishing on the Google Play Store, everyone has now embraced the fact that robots have the power to decide their fate.

The bots that Google launches in the Google Play Store may decide to remove or suspend your applications at any time.

As explained above, after several suspensions, these same bots will automatically decide to terminate your Google Play Publisher account.

All this makes me wonder and leads me to ask myself several questions.

First of all, since these are robots that automatically check the Google Play Store to get rid of applications that don’t comply with Google’s long list of rules, why do application suspensions lead to a termination of the Google Play Publisher account?

The suspension of an application is already a rather strong sanction in itself and since it is decided by robots, it is not very resource-consuming for Google.

Adding to three or four application suspensions the termination of the Google Play Publisher account, therefore, sounds like a double penalty to me.

Secondly, once a developer sees his Google Play Publisher account terminated, why is it so difficult or even impossible to have an exchange with a human person actually studying the case of the offending Android developer?

Some answer this question by saying that Google does not have the human resources to manually process all appeals from Android developers.

Their answer makes me rather laugh, I must confess.

A company the size of Google, which weighs close to 1 trillion dollars on the stock market, would not have the means to manually handle appeals from developers whose total number of applications published on its Play Store barely reaches 3 million.

Rather, I think that Google does not have the will to put in place policies that really take into account the Android developers who have contributed so much to its success in the 2010s.