Google pulls emulators from app store

[Gindil]

Link [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/gaming-system-emulators-pulled-from-android-market.ars]

Yong Zhang, a third-party Android application developer who sold a number of highly popular video game console emulators has been locked out of the Android Market. His applications were removed from the store and his account was terminated by Google without warning.

This is the second console emulator developer to get kicked out of the Android Market in recent history. ZodTTD, the developer behind a PlayStation emulator, was similarly sentenced to Android Market exile last month. These moves seem like a signal that Google is planning to purge the emulators from its mobile application store, but there may be other licensing issues in play here.

Want to know BS? It's the fact that Google gave NO warning about why they were pulling this. No rules were broken, but it seems that these two are responsible for providing an app, nothing more.

Good job Google. Real good way to show off the power of the Android, and the power of free available apps for people.

There are other problems it seems in the article. But the problem basically lies with Google not giving enough information beforehand.