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The Developer Console for the Google Play Store has a notification that from the 30th September, all listing will require a physical address to be shown on the app details page. The notification states:
Add a physical contact address Beginning September 30, 2014, you need to add a physical address to your Settings page. After you've added an address, it will be available on your app's detail page to all users on Google Play. If your physical address changes, make sure to update your information on your Settings page.
If you have paid apps or apps with in-app purchases, it's mandatory to provide a physical address where you can be contacted, as you are the seller of that content, to comply with with consumer protection laws. If you don't provide a physical address on your account, it may result in your apps being removed from the Play Store.
Thus far there have been no explanation for the requirement, with some speculation that it may be to satisfy a legal requirement for merchants to provide a physical address, with some concerned about how it could impact independent developers.
(Score: 1) by art guerrilla on Saturday September 20 2014, @09:56AM
yes, a very annoying situation...
i had an issue i was going to contact them about (google crapps on the phone i can't delete), and was surprised that a 'chat' thing was available with an apparent human bean... when i talked to the droid, they confirmed that, 'no, it wasn't really my phone, it was THEIR phone to do with what they please, to install/uninstall crapps as they saw fit, and i could go piss up a rope...'
no, of course the droid didn't say THAT little nugget of too-much-truth, but that was effectively what his message was:
all your phone are belong to us...
*as if* i hadn't paid that $150 for the phone, mistakenly thinking that made it 'mine'...
what a fool i am...
about to abandon any/all google crapp simply for the inability of contacting them over just about ANYTHING...
cyanogenmod, here i come...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday September 21 2014, @02:26AM
Try the Replicant OS [wikipedia.org] get out of the do no evil empire completely.
You pay for the hardware that comes with google-pw0n3d by default. Then it's up to the consumer to root one's own device to get real control over it. A really fucked up business practice.