Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, let'stalk about free and paid apps with a new repetitive content policy.
Alright, so a couple of days ago, we did a video about the new Google Play
policies around repetitive content and a few other things, but we all got this
email saying, "Hey, Google Play is changing their policies on repetitive content," and
the whole fear that I had is going to be like Apple have 4.3 errors where
they started saying you need to take all of your apps and make them into
container apps. And people would download one app and then it would download all
the content after that. But one of the things I talked about in the video
was I hope it's not going to have an effect on free and paid apps because we
always release two apps. We released a free version and the paid version. The
paid version just makes it easier for people to purchase. Well, I got an
email the other day from Nurall Ahmed which said, "I am also in the same boat
about repetitive content where some users said - where some users sadly
received suspension of strike for paid and pro versions. I still have not
received a suspension, but out of fear, I have temporarily suspended my paid
versions of my apps as the only change is that there are ads available for my
app." Yeah, that's me too. Here are some Reddit posts with regards
to repetitive content which may prove worthy discussion for being flooded with
other places besides Reddit. So, have a look at my screen here. I did bring these
these up here, so there's a couple of Reddit threads here, which I'll put in
the description to the video here, about some people who have had they're just
like within the first day of having these policies come out. They're having
their apps suspended or their Pro versions suspended because it's exactly
the same as the free version. So, for those of you who don't know what I'm
talking about, most of us app developers released two
versions, released of the premium version and the free version and usually the
free version has ads, but you can upgrade that to be the pro version through
in-app purchases. That's pretty much usually the same codebase, but like for
me it's just certain variables switched off when we recompile it. And there's
a couple of these threads here where they talk about it. And it sounds like
the suspension - we talked about this before with Google Play - they're a lot
more lenient about certain things that Apple is. But their punishment is
suspension. You don't usually don't get a warning. I've been looking at this
and just like - just like Nural was saying, I am also in the boat where I
have several apps there. I'm thinking about should we go through and basically
remove all the pro versions of our app so that only - we only have free versions
with in-app purchases. It's a very daunting prospect so what I'm doing now
is I guess I'm just stalling. I'm probably doing what a lot of people are
I'm trying to think. Is this something I really want to do because I don't want
to do anything if it's not gonna affect me. But it might affect me. It's like and
this is a problem with a lot of the policies on Google Play, well, mostly
on Google Play because Apple will tell you - Apple will give you a second chance.
Google Play will be like, "Hey, we have a new policy.." and what surprises me about
these Reddit posts - and again, let me just say I have not been affected by this yet,
but I'm - I do think we're gonna have to go through this weekend and start
removing the pro versions. What's scary about this is that
just swiftly, they just get their apps removed and I bet it's the ones
with the more downloads that are being affected first. You might not be
affected so much yet. So anyway, my question to yo, guys, is are you being
affected by this? Do you think it's worth removing your paid and free or paid
versions, whichever one makes the least amount of money, and just so that you can
comply with this? We've all talked about it and even Nural said it in a
second email, he said if this - if these new policies mean less competition then
I'm all for them. I'm the same way I think it's gonna be a good thing if they
work, but it's also scary to remove something that you've worked so hard on
just because it might - because it might result in a suspension.
Anyway, what do you, guys, think? That is it for today! I'll talk to you, guys, again
tomorrow!