Whenever you see an article like this, it is always useful to check out what they've made:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Polyclef+Sof...
Speaks for itself.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Polyclef+Sof...
Speaks for itself.
Unless you're arguing that there are better direct equivalents of those apps on the market these days and there's more competition from good apps, I don't see how "your products have always been poor and have not recently gotten worse" answers "our sales have gone down".
It also doesn't help that the exact functionality of their most famous app (EasyTether) has been baked into the OS since ICS (and similar functionality has been in since Froyo), and their second most famous app (WordFeud) relies somewhat on network effects and has been mostly supplanted by Words With Friends.
This is "their" app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.et...
This is the /actual/ Easy Tether app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.ea....
So not only is this developer a hack, they're also a thief.
I think it's the way it is because EasyTether was developed by someone living in Russia (look at the whois for mobile-stream.com), but they had no way of charging for it on the app store in the early days - there used to be a very restricted set of countries. So they got Polyclef to publish it (whois polyclefsoftware.com points to Louisiana). And that's what the description on the first link says - "EasyTether is developed by Mobile Stream and published by Polyclef Software".
Going with a publisher should be avoided as much as possible and it's a very ignorant answer, but for the end user, it seems that only these types of games seem to be worth their money.