Comments on: Android Market: New TOS Confirm December 11th Changes

By: Day Worker

Day Worker — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:29:15 +0000

Cool! Somebody who reads these agreements.
I was just reading the SDK download agreement and was wondering what ‘developer credentials’ were. It’s amazing I can’t find anything on the Internet saying what they are. I guess they’ve become so common place that people just accept whatever they are and do what Google tells them.
Your article is the first I’ve found that gives me a hint. Is credentials a polite way of Google saying ‘credit card number’.

Lemmings.

Probably people are so used to them that they’ve drifted into realm of just being accepted. So I get a hint from what you wrote, that’s Googles polite way of saying give us your credit card number.

By: OldDogNuTrx

OldDogNuTrx — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:39:30 +0000

I was being a “good liitle developer” and went to sign the distribution agreement and found this…the ADP2: http://android.brightstarcorp.com/index.htm
My apologies if this is old news. Sucks for me as I just got the ADP1 less than a month ago :-(

By: Dan Morrill

Dan Morrill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:31 +0000

Re: the broken link to Transaction Fees: oops, that link is indeed broken. We’re correcting it now; thanks for pointing it out. In the meantime, you can find the correct information here:

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=112622

By: Derrick

Derrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:59 +0000

*bases* covered

By: Derrick

Derrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:40 +0000

I agree, I think most of the legal talk is to protect them in the event they do need to ban someone. They want to have their basis covered.

I also agree that a developer should be banned if their app is somehow misleading (with intent) or contains spyware etc (not sure if that’s possible as I’m not sure what Google’s approval process is).

By: whample

whample — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:56:04 +0000

I’d be seriously surpised if Google hasn’t always had a clause stating that they reserve the right to ban developers they deem not to be “in good standing.” It’s a fairly standard cover your ass clause and likely kicks in if you either have repeated takedowns or a particulary heinous one. Google doesnt really care if people make crappy apps as long as they aren’t malicious to the user or damaging to them as a company.