[thesoonerdev]

The fee for the certification is around $100, which was said to be the filter which prevented frivolous apps from being submitted to the App store. Shouldn't that help?

[Bjorkbat]

People still pay $1000+ for someone to make an Android app of questionable quality for them. A one time fee of $100 is nothing by comparison.

[akshatpradhan]

>People still pay $1000+ for someone to make an Android app of questionable quality for them.

And if that Android App actually makes money, then you now have leverage to charge a high hourly rate to fix the questionably-made app.

Sounds like a win for you.

[letitleak]

intentionally bad programmers don't need the certification, just to pay the standard $25 play store fee. I think this program will help the quality of play store iff they can get a lot of people through without sacraficing content, such that their certificates actually matter in the market.