AirDroid removed from Play Store for mentioning WhatsApp name

For those who don’t know Airdroid yet, it’s a great app that lets you manage your smartphone’s notifications and reply to your SMS on your PC and Mac. Let’s just say it’s very practical when you’re busy with your computer. Especially since Airdroid also allowsUse messaging services like WhatsApp from your computer.

No issues so far, except that Facebook didn’t appreciate the use of the term WhatsApp in the app’s description and asked Google to immediately remove it from the Play Store.

• To read : WhatsApp, third-party app users will be permanently banned

And the problem is, no, only Google withdrew the application without notifying its publishers, but in addition did not violate any rules. Play Store rules theoretically prohibit publishers from mentioning the names of other apps in their titles. However, the term WhatsApp only appears in AirDroid’s description and does not recommend any connection between the two services. In summary, the company did not break any rules.

• kidnapping : WhatsApp is available on PC and Mac

Faced with this procedural error, Google had to reintegrate the app into its store less than an hour later. But this story tends to prove that Google tends to react quickly to the slightest request from Facebook without examining the statements of both parties.

Also, although third-party apps for WhatsApp are prohibited and AirDroid lets you use the service on your PC, Facebook also has no say in this particular case because the service lets you read and reply to WhatsApp messages. but everything goes through the app’s standard APIs.

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