[epmaybe]

This is something that really bothered me - I had an app that was small and worked fine on the latest Android OS, yet they took the app and account down because we hadn’t uploaded a new version in a year. Appeals didn’t help

[ClassyJacket]

That's horrendous, but it fits with Google's method of releasing a product, immediately abandoning it, and shutting it down permanently a year later.

[heyoni]

What was their reasoning?

[jart]

To keep you running on the hamster wheel.

They'd ban Mozart and Shakespeare from the app store if they could.

[PhasmaFelis]

There may not have been any. Individual app-store reviewers can block you any time they feel like it, the guy checking your appeal is the same, and none of them have any real pressure to behave unless you have money and corporate power behind you.