Google has removed the Kongregate Arcade game app from the Android Market after just one day. The reason: it apparently violates the non-compete clause in the terms and conditions developers sign to distribute Android apps.
Kongregate is one of the largest Flash game portals on the Internet and owned by GameStop. It offers in the region of 13 million games online, and a growing percentage were to be offered through the Kongregate Arcade App.
It looks as though Google has seen that the Kongregate Arcade app is offering access to those games and assumed it’s a competing app store operating on Android devices, which isn’t allowed.
Kongregate’s CEO Jim Greer disagrees as the games are only cached to a device while being played. At no point is a game stored on the Android device’s main storage. He also points out that by the same definition the Kindle app would also break the non-compete clause.
It’s unclear why Google has decided to take this action for what seems to be an app that offers no real threat to the Android Market. Greer assumes the decision was made by someone in the Android Market review department of Google, and not a senior member of the management team who didn’t like what he/she was seeing.
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