Dura lex, sed lex. Google imposes strict rules on publishers who want to publish apps on the Play Store, and everyone must abide by it. Everyone, really? Samsung caught trying violate any of the online store’s laws in one of their software. The error seems unintentional and has just been noticed. We’ll see how Google reacts to this unprecedented situation.
Max Weinbach at XDADevelopers has indeed spotted a flaw in the Galaxy Wearable app, which is used for Samsung-connected watches like the Galaxy Watch. By downloading the app on another smartphone, here the One Plus 8 Pro takes and downloads the APK of the app Samsung Pay software. The problem is that the latter was downloaded. From Samsung servers.
So this is section 4.5 of the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement basically saying the app cannot install other apps that are not in the Google Play Store. So it can’t download an app and ask you to install a different app. pic.twitter.com/HGeS4IJUMf
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) 9 June 2020
A simple fault tolerance?
One small detail that changes everything, Google’s rules on the subject are clear. If one application makes it possible to download another application, the second will automatically Go through the Play Store, and not a third party service as in here. Christ no.
If any app violates this rule for user security, it will be removed from Play Store immediately. Still Samsung Galaxy Wearable always available. In reality, as 9to5Google pointed out, the change seems very recent and could just be a bug.
Anyway, Google will have to make a choice if the person concerned does not react quickly. A certain tolerance towards a company as important as Samsung might be considered appropriate to allow time to rectify the situation.
Source : 9to5Google
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