To be fair, this is a terrible example to bring up.
This is somebody who published a whole bunch of apps named after other content creators, who subsequently ignored Google's warnings that his account would be terminated, and who seems surprised when his account was terminated.
There's a genuinely important discussion about the "walled-garden" style of software distribution and the ramifications that this can have on developer freedom, but I'm not convinced this fellow is a good example to run with.
Well I totally disagree, Its a very fair example. We are talking about re-appeal process here and Google's way of handling it. The guy lost his play store account, wallet account and what not and on top of that his appeal was not even read(far away from reconsideration) by a human. I remember how google blocked my Adsense account and all my re-appeal request fell on some deaf ears of a lousy program which simply denied restoring my account. Its simply Gangster like behavior!!
This is somebody who published a whole bunch of apps named after other content creators, who subsequently ignored Google's warnings that his account would be terminated, and who seems surprised when his account was terminated.
There's a genuinely important discussion about the "walled-garden" style of software distribution and the ramifications that this can have on developer freedom, but I'm not convinced this fellow is a good example to run with.