Google Drive hates developers now
Source: YouTube · Theo - t3․gg · published Oct 23, 2024 · 23:58
Google is restricting developers' access to Google Drive through inconsistent, bureaucratic, and often arbitrary policies, making it nearly impossible for small indie apps to maintain functionality. This has led to major developers like IIA Writer and Panic discontinuing Google Drive support due to excessive security reviews, shifting requirements, and lack of transparency.
• IIA Writer’s Android app was frozen after Google revoked Drive access via API changes, forcing a costly, time-consuming annual security audit with third-party firms like KPMG 2:06.
• Google’s policy shift to require "read-only" access for writing apps is absurd and contradictory, likened to a food supplier denying meat to a steakhouse 5:25.
• Panic discontinued Google Drive support in Transmit due to a lengthy, broken security review process that took over a month and required manual audits by Google partners at no clear cost 18:54.
• The lack of transparency, inconsistent enforcement, and high costs disproportionately hurt small developers while benefiting Google’s partners, creating a hostile ecosystem for innovation 10:03.
This crisis highlights a deeper issue: Google’s Android platform is becoming increasingly hostile to independent developers, with policies that are unstable, opaque, and financially punitive.
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Google Drive is one of the few Google products I actually quite like it's not perfect or anything and yeah Dropbox is fine but I've had a good time overall with Google Drive it's fairly priced it's easy to use it's reliable works on everything and of course Google has to ruin that for all of us despite the fact that dries had a pretty easy to ous accessible API for a long time seems like Google's changed their mind on what we should actually be able to do with it and going forward it doesn't seem like many apps are going to have access at all to be very very clear this will not affect your Google Drive account that you go to Via drive.google.com but if you use your Google Drive account in other apps for things like syncing note taking tracking all sorts of stuff that's probably going away …