alt Hacker NewsThe Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
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Why do people still want to make Google more powerful? I don't get it. Legislation must allow for break up of monopolies such as google play.
That's quick. The Slack App review takes 10+ weeks.
yeah my 'promptly AI' alarm clock almost always spends 7 days, as soon as the binary changes, even descriptions changes take several days
Sometimes several weeks in my recent submissions.
Now, let's compare with "google friendly" apps: https://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/?appcategory=youtube :)
not my experience... I have most updates go through in <24h.
Apple's App Review has also been slipping over the past few months. I have multiple apps that have taken days, up to a week to be approved.
What's most galling is that if you use CapacitorJS or similar you can ship app updates instantly to your users but if you write native first-class OS citizen apps you are penalized.
There is nothing quite so annoying as having a fix for a bug people are running into and have zero control over when it will get out to them.
Stop deploying software onto closed platforms. There's no excuse.
I just submitted an open source android passive income app [0]. It's been two weeks and I'm still waiting. It's my first app though.
In fact, I'd support Google with this policies if they'd also take full accountability if my phone gets hacked. Do they? No, so it's unfair and a bad authoritarian way to create another walled garden.
This will only change once a new player rises. We live in a world full of blind consumers that won't look out of the Google and Apple walled gardens.
Everyone that ingests code is seeing an order of magnitude more of it thanks to LLMs, even existing apps are producing more updates. It's the same sort of thing github keeps failing to keep up with.
For all the complaining about Apple's store, the Play Store has always been worse imo. You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people.
I just updated 2 dormant apps for the first time in 10 years; It took 2 days, and the apps were approved on a sunday.
Sounds like a clear "find another store" message to me.
Same happened for CoMaps (which unfortunately does not have 12+ years of presence going for it)
Google's review is complete horseshit. It has been darkly funny to watch them try to compete with Apple by adding strict review (way stricter than Apple's) and still terrible applications make it in while legitimate ones have trouble.
Just go back to the way it was before, and scan the apps with static analysis tools. This security theater is stupid and always was (for Apple and Google).
> AI is becoming part of how people experience the web every day. We want to make sure that doesn’t mean people are chained to one company’s self-serving pipeline.
Ah yes, the extremely diverse offering of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Mistral (a fake "euro" chatbot). Mozilla is truly a "people's" company.
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Why can't you wait for a week? That doesn't sound like a long time.
I'm not familiar with this space (new to Android), could someone explain why there hasn't been additional "app stores" appear that people can use?
I hope someone will sue the ever-loving shit out of Apple when their foot dragging prevents a critical update from going out in time to prevent a 0-day from being widely exploited.
For new accounts yes, for older accounts it's much faster in my experience.
Apple has it's own issues, they often just answer with a random question so they can kick the review down the line. "Are you sure this is your pricing?" "Can you confifrm you have not selected that country" and then you have to wait another 2 days.
A week-plus review queue basically kills any chance of a quick hotfix for a free app.