So are they insinuating that Google App Store “popularity” ranking is actually paid product placement?
It probably is
Do you REALLY think that Threads is one of the top 4 downloaded apps on Android? “EasyHomescreen” is number 5.
or simply that people were mostly installing the app after seeing ads for it.
And I am sure that has absolutely nothing to do with tariff hell, financial insecurity, and repeal of the de minimis exemption that temu and the like required to function.
The title misled me here, I think. It sounded like an indictment that Temu stopped showing Google ads in its product then its ranking in Google Play dropped, but I don’t think it’s that.
Sounds like Temu was paying for ads to get users, and without those ads people stopped turning to it for shopping. Also,
The timing coincided with the Trump administration’s hardened stance on Chinese imports, raising tariffs to 125%
Perhaps the actual main factor.
Surely this has nothing to do with the loophole their entire shitty business was built around being closed.
