r/AppBusiness • u/mybutterflymon • 6h ago
Monetization Do you think this guy fucked up by touching Android?
I see these type of reviews all the time with Android apps and games. This is a $25/year educational app. The good thing this guy did was to make the iOS version first, then a minimal effort Android version.
My favorite review is the last one: "I don't want to pay money for a app." He could have just uninstalled the app, but the guy is so mean that he tries to screw the app just because he's didn't get it for free.
Of course Google wants developers to subsidize them by making free apps and games, so they never remove such reviews.
The Android userbase is human excreta. The freeloaders will absolutely ruin you if they can't get what they want for free.
The supa news is Google dumps your home address online. So one of these psychos can do more damage than just leave a bad review if they can't get what they want for free. People get swatted or shot for much less. They can send contraband to your address and then call the cops if they don't like the tone of your reply or your race. Have you seen what goes on in X and 4chan?
Death threats against game developers are not unusual. Developers at Naughty Dog, CD Projekt Red, Bungie, Treyarch, and other studios all got them. But, unlike Google, these companies did not publish their developers' home addresses, so the damage was limited.
Android people have even started to downvote this post.
Google's solutions is to put someone on Reddit to pretend to help developers: u/GooglePlayDevSupport. Only shit companies ignore customers on their own platform and only spew copypasta on Reddit when someone complains hard enough.