• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    2516·
    3 months ago

    It’s Google.

    I’m certain that “Common violations” = “competes with our own products”.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
      1312·
      3 months ago

      It’s highly unlikely that this app even comes up on the radar insofar as competing with Google Maps.

      The answer is probably more mundane - an automated system made an incorrect call. It keeps happening when it comes to these Play Store app reviews.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        171·
        3 months ago

        Indeed. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”—or, in this case, an unaudited automated process. Now, I’m sure the fact that it competes with one of their products meant that they were in no particular hurry to address the issue, but I’m sure the original failure was process related, not anti-competitive practices.

      • tibi@lemmy.world
        51·
        3 months ago

        Or maybe an automated system flagged it and an underpaid and overworked employee in a third world country reviewed it.

      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
        5·
        3 months ago

        Apple used to straight up steal the idea of existing apps. Lately it seems they favor buyout, like with dark cloud becoming weather, but it used to be that Apple would randomly swoop in and crush developers by creating a first party version of their app.