Hey, this is Overpass Insights! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want to
give you an update of my Google Play suspension and talk about how the ground
is always shifting underneath you.
all right so the last video I did was last Tuesday where I told you about how
Google Play had terminated my account now if you watch the live stream each
week you'll know that they did reinstate my account but I kind of wanted to give
you guys an update on that however so much has happened since then that my
little account termination just seems small and insignificant considering the
problems that the world is having at the moment but anyway just to go over it
yeah about two days later they did consider my appeal they reactivated my
account however all of my apps were marked as removed and they told me and
this is this is true they said just go into the description of each app and put
a space at the end and click update and then that way it'll register as a change
and it'll go back through and republish itself go back through the algorithm so
that's what that's what we did I got rolling on my team I said you just go
through and put a space at the end of every description hit update and she's
like I don't know if I want to touch it because I don't want it to break
anything and I was like I don't want to touch it either because I don't want to
get suspended again where it's like we're too afraid to touch it because the
algorithm might suspend it for whatever reason and the strange thing is I've
been talking to developers all week who have been sending emails and comments
saying the same thing like dude I've got two strikes against me I don't want to
touch anything I don't want to you know I'm too afraid to even make a keyword
change of too afraid to do to release an update which is strange there's a lot of
us developers we're just kind of scared we're kind of like we don't want to
change anything however this everything has happened in
the last week is put things in perspective because for all those
developers have said they don't want to change anything like you know they're a
bit shell-shocked because they don't wanna get suspended or they have been
suspended and reinstated right they don't want to change anything I've also
heard from a lot of people who said yeah this is why I don't do a house is always
gonna do ass but because of the kind of problems you're having this is why I
don't do them and this kind of statement bothers me most more than anything else
because it's justifying inaction right I have nothing but admiration for somebody
who put something out there and they're having problems and the grounds shifting
underneath their feet or maybe their business
and they're trying to appeal it and all this kind of stuff because they've done
something but for somebody to say oh that's the reason I didn't do anything
that's like you know that's like me saying the reason I don't go out for a
run is because I heard about this one guy who had a heart attack once or yeah
the reason I don't go do this is because of it there was a story in the news that
does that one of the big myths about passive income and something that I'm
kind of learning as we go is that you kind of hope it's gonna be I built
something once and it continues making money forever but that's never the case
the ground is always shifting underneath you like I released my first app in 2012
and it started to make money but the algorithms would change you know like
the policies would change after you know we have GDP or we have a target parent
well over the years has always been something we have to change and you we
have to go through and do it and I moan and I complain but in the end I have to
do it but it's the same as every single industry actually there's something very
draconian about the Google algorithm where it will just go through and
suspend you right just like take everything offline
I think that's draconian right they should there should be a lot more human
interaction both if there's one thing we've seen like I said this last week
puts everything into perspective because every single business owner out there is
thinking about what am I gonna do with my business right if if the economy
slows down if people stop going to work if they stop buying things if they stop
spending money on apps if they stop you know as software developers I think we
have it pretty good where we could still find work we should still get jobs
whereas if we were something like I found like a yoga instructor or
something like that I think I would be really panicked because you know people
might not go out it's like a luxury type thing it's like not a non-essential
right so they says software developers we can so some of the clients that I'm
working for will just be working from home you know that's something we could
do and I think in this crisis where everything's closing down and we're
still at the beginning of it I mean I have no idea what's going to happen
we're still the beginning of it but I do know that the companies that are going
to make are gonna be zoom are gonna be Netflix
are gonna be they're gonna be technology companies and when people start looking
at things to thinking I can't have people coming to work I can't have
people coming to the office how can I oughta make this this and this and
that's where we come into effect that's where those skills you've you've
acquired as actually someone who does something who becomes a software
developer who becomes an app developer that's where those skills come into
effect because they're they're transportable you could go from being
app developer to working on mainframes and working on other systems right
because a lot of those skills are transferable right and I wanted to to
talk about that because never let somebody else's misfortune - fortune
with the Google Play Store which by the way is over like the apps are back up
there now we've updated them there's a few hitches like some of the updates
didn't go through what you were dealing with but you know never let somebody
else's inaction stop you from action like I said at the beginning this year I
don't want to be passive anymore I want to produce it but if you swing for the
fences and you miss at least you swung for the fences if you produce an app and
it's not doing as well as you hoped you produce the app you just have to keep
working at it right but there's for everybody who's done that for everybody
who's created something to put something out there there's a lot more people who
are looking at everything out there thinking I think I'm gonna hold off
because I heard that one story about what happened to it what happened to
arrack or I heard that one story whatever right the ground is always
going to shift underneath you you every business has to deal with it every
industry has to deal with it and and we're no exception except the Google
thing is draconian let me know what you guys think if you agree or disagree
thanks for very much for watching thanks for subscribing thanks for liking yada
yada yada I will talk to you guys again tomorrow