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This guy should be banned from the Market simply so Google doesn't have to waste oxygen looking at his support requests.

Anyone who takes the time to put together a list of hard-hitting business requests like 'algorithmic transparency' is going to ever, ever, ever have a hit consumer application. The linked list isn't about making more money, it's about ideological purity.

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OP is responsible for top 5 level apps in several paid categories.

More importantly, one of the grievances is that Google doesn't look at support requests. Like, at all.

This is not exactly new behavior for them; it's just a new platform. Gmail and Apps users have dealt with this for years.

Customer service and support continues to be the single biggest thing that Google gets wrong. And I say this as an unabashed Google fanboy in most other respects, at least compared to my immediate colleagues.

Without wanting to get political - I do believe sometimes capitalism does need reigning in. Not everything has to be about making money.

In any case, some of the requests relate directly to customer (developer) support - positive gains here should definitely affect profitability.

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