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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

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  1. BatteryMountain · · focus · HN ↗
    App release reviews take at least 1 week now. They take 15% of revenue and I had to pay $25 to create an account. And I'm sure I spent more hours on setting up my business + bank account, dun's number, google account creation & verification, app listing configuration/verification and only then getting to the review stage. My first round took exactly 1 month from having a signed app release on my laptop ready to go to it showing publicly on the store.
    1. dsjakupov · · focus · HN ↗
      Same here My build was ready like for a month and all that was stopping me is the requirement for the 12 testers being active for 14 days. When I applied to both stores, I thought apple is gonna be a problem, but google is a bigger unmovable wall
      1. BatteryMountain · · focus · HN ↗
        Mine is in a company capacity, not personal capactiy, so according to their ui, i can immediately send for review without internal testing. But that review step is the one that is currently slow on their side.
        1. dsjakupov · · focus · HN ↗
          Got it, for me it happened in a day max on my main working account ( not personal )
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