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>>kotaKa+(OP)
This is what Apple already does, isn't it? Why wouldn't it work for Google too?

>>sltkr+Tz
Apple requires you to get a developer account with them.

Nowhere does that require you to go and get a DUNS number, which is onerous for a single developer to do without the infrastructure of a company.

>>indror+WB
While the linked article notes that organizations require a DUNS number seemingly as an aside, personal accounts do not.

Which is exactly the same policy as Apple.

>>llm_ne+OD
For me the difference is that Android is an open-source operating system. It sold itself and differentiated itself to users, developers and phone manufacturers as an open ecosystem built on open-source foundations.

Over the years, it seems Google has been trying to have their cake and eat it too, by basically subsuming others to use Android through this appeal of a more free and open operating system ecosystem, but have tried to slowly close and close it down now that it has won the other half of the market on that promise.

This feels more sly, because it's kind of a bait and switch. Apple never made such claim and was always upfront, so while I don't like it, I never bought into it in the first place for them to have the rug pulled under me after giving them my money as Google might be doing.