Rant: You think Apple has neglected its developers? The chrome webstore is worse<p>A few months ago I've submitted my first chrome extension to the chrome webstore. It wasn't an immediate success like I might have wished it to be, but it was a "scratch" your own problem kind of product and I was satisfied. I acquired some users, some were active some were not and I kept adding features that I felt were lacking. It was a side project I enjoyed immensely.<p>Then around a month ago I started my long and unresolved dispute with the chrome webstore team.
As it would seem, another developer has registered a trademark for the same name I was using for my product. Notice that when I submitted my add-on this trademark wasn't yet registered. Without any notice my add-on was removed from the chrome webstore. Even after I removed all references to the old product name, any visuals or textual content that might somehow be affiliated with the previous name were also removed. I kept submitting my add-on for approval, but every time my "review process" was denied without a single reason. Sometimes I received a general automatic email that directed me to the chrome extension developer policy and sometimes I didn't receive any email at all. All attempts to contact anyone at the team went unanswered.<p>Although this is a rant, if any of you had encountered this kind of treatment before I'd love to hear what you did about it.
Google half-asses all of their products except perhaps AdSense. I'm not surprised you had such a bad experience.<p>The galling thing about Apple is that they make so much money off of their store (and charge developers so much). With the Chrome store, you're basically getting what you pay for.