So much for the 'open' platform. Google Has Begun Purging Ad-Blocking Apps From The Play Store

[onehandle]

According to Android developer Jared Rummler and a number of other sources, Google has begun purging known ad-blocking software from the Play Store today.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/03/13/breaking-google-has-begun-purging-ad-blocking-apps-from-the-play-store

[DesMoinesDem]

1. What do you mean so much for open? The apps can still be installed.

Just because they aren't in the play store doesn't mean they can't be installed. Android, being an open platform, lets you install apps from outside of their app store. Apple, being a closed platform, does not.

[MattBaggins]

7. Apple Uber Fanboi

You are wasting your time.

[Xithras]

2. That's because, under Google's TOS, it's malware.

You're not allowed to distribute any software via Google Play that deliberately interferes with, or spies on, other applications from other developers. They consider it malware.

FWIW, it's still an "open" platform. Android users have access to around a dozen different app stores natively (you don't have to jailbreak or root the phone to use them), and Google's enforcement only applies to their own app store. There are also DOZENS of other app stores run by vendors ranging from small software companies to major manufacturers like Samsung and Dell. The developers are free to move their apps to other markets and continue to sell them to Android users as they see fit. I'm sure Amazon would be happy to have their business. Google has decided that it doesn't want it on their store anymore, but won't try to stop you from buying it elsewhere. That's the definition of "open".

To look at it another way: Apple doesn't permit porn apps for the iPhone, and there's no way to install porn apps without hacking your phone and installing them from unauthorized third party sources. Google doesn't permit porn apps in the Play Store either, but their open platform welcomes third party app stores, a number of which are happy to sell you all the porn you can stare at. The platform is "open", so it's impossible for any one company to ban software from Android users. If Google won't sell it to you, someone else will. It was designed that way from the very beginning.

Apple users can't get that kind of freedom without hacking their phones.

[onehandle]

3. Android software is nothing but malware.

Google just wants their spam ad coin.
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Android malware numbers explode in 2012

99 percent of new malware attacked Android

We hear it time and again: Android has big security problems. Last year, malware on smartphones increased more than 780 percent compared to 2011. The attacks almost exclusively targeted Android, whose users therefore have a significantly higher risk of contracting a virus.

According to a recent report from the security firm Kaspersky, 99 percent of all new malware attacked the Android platform last year. That was a continuation of the trend from 2011, which registered an explosive growth in Android malware.

During 2011, an average of 800 new types of malicious programs were discovered every month, and this figure rose in 2012 to a whopping 6,300 programs.

"Android is the world's most widely used smartphone operating system, so it is not surprising that it is also the hacker's favorite goal. But it has probably surprised many people, including myself, that it's as much as 99 percent", security expert Kevin Freij from MYMobileSecurity said.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/features/google-android/3425985/android-malware-numbers-explode-in-2012

[DesMoinesDem]

4. "Android software is nothing but malware."

Can't argue with the amazing logic of the extreme apple fanboy.

[frylock]

6. just smh at that nonsense..

they are shitting their collective pants over GS4. prolly having a hard time understanding how Samsung can skip completely over a model GS3s.

[MattBaggins]

9. They are nursing their wounds at having their asses

handed to them by Android in the world market. They will be non contenders in the embedded market as well. The coming world of smart appliances is already lost to Apple. Microsoft will have a bigger market share then they will.

[frylock]

5. what part of "we don't need to install apps from google play" did you not understand?

I've been rocking android devices with root for 3 years now and never had any issue with malware. know why? because I don't install anything unless I need it.

[MattBaggins]

8. You are the ultimate in Apple user types

Do you think Android users should be allowed to have a choice or should we all be good little apple clones rating crappy instagram ducklip pics of teenage girls?

I can take control of my phones security and abilities myself. You have to wait on Apple to tell you what to do?

As I have to say everytime the Apple fans post such crap; I don't hate Apple, it's their userbase I can't stand.

[CBGLuthier]

10. People want free apps and they want to block the ads that pay for free apps.

as a developer I applaud this move by google.

It would be stupid to allow an ad blocking app that screws with other people's apps.

[Robb]

11. This. I thought that was the whole idea. nt