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hoboken ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy with an ecosystem as large as androids it's inevitable that some developers are going to screw up royal with that in mind let's take a look at the most controversial apps and games of 2015 Android pay was announced a heavy fanfare at Google i/o the premise was easy enough to understand it was to be a revamped and improved tap tap a system that rivaled Apple pay and could be used throughout the Android ecosystem by applications games and even online retailers the rollout of the service has left a little bit to be desired for starters the new Android pay doesn't work on rooted devices for security reasons this is in stark contrast to google wallet which worked on rooted and non rooted devices alike and earth to think of root community so badly the Google employees actually took to the XDA forums to explain what happened to follow it up Google Wallet was then gutted and turned into a paypal clone with its biggest feature being able to send and receive money from friends and manage your account which her features had actually already had in classic Google fashion the applications do work together but feel disjointed as a whole everyone has calmed down about it now but you can still find remnants of a start that wasn't pretty and people who still aren't happy about the whole thing the developers of Monument Valley may have won the most controversial tweet from a mobile game developer in 2015 when they tweeted that five percent of their Android installs were paid for and ninety-five percent were not despite us to not saying one damn word about piracy this sparked quite the commotion and began one of the most in-depth discussions about mobile piracy to date not only was the problem unleashed upon the masses in a way it had never been done before but it also encouraged other developers to post about their numbers and show that piracy really is a problem on mobile unfortunately instead of it being a positive thing people through a proverbial temper tantrum as pirates across the internet took to the message boards to defend themselves they used every internet troll trick in the book from calling us to flat-out liars to taking the numbers out of context to create fallacious arguments the backfire was so bad that us too did an interview with recode to try to calm everybody down the meltdown did eventually blow over and of course nothing good came of it's almost hilariously modern combat 5 blackout went freemium just two months later and people simply couldn't under dan why apple had every chance in the world to make a good impression on Android users with their first Android app the whispers that they would be joining the google play store had been around for a year or longer so it was really never a question if but rather a question of when maybe iTunes for Android or perhaps Apple music nope Apple's first Android app was to help Android users leave Android to start with the application actually does quite well it transfers all of your stuff to Apple services so you can just sign in to your next iPhone and be ready to go of course this was taken as a huge offense to the android fan boys and girls who immediately took to the applications page on Google Play to unleash probably the heaviest stream of one star ratings I've seen since Facebook home this created yet another divide in the Android user space between people who relentlessly trolled Apple and those who found that sort of behavior rather childish the vitriol even sparked a parody application called stick with Android that has received ten thousand five star ratings and has a 4.8 Google Play rating in the play store right now the move to iOS thing has all but subsided but the impact can still be seen with every Apple release as they now get a slew of one star ratings just because it was released by apple pushbullet became the latest victim of actually trying to make money off of their platform and it seems like they went about it the wrong way the popular platform is considered the de facto solution for transferring files between computers and mobile phones and the extra features such as texting from PC Universal copy and paste and others made it a fan favorite that is of course until they started charging fifty bucks a year for it what made pushbullet so interesting was that it did nothing wrong it's still a great application with great features and great stability the problem seems to be centered around how they went about transitioning into a paid application users have lamented the allegedly exorbitant cost of pushbullet pro and how the free version was gutted to make the premium version look better which some people felt was insulting the pushback was so intense that the pushbullet team took to ready to do an ama which seems to have calmed the public down quite a bit as of now the price remains five dollars per month or fifty dollars a year and the competition has been trying to take advantage of that telegram is actually a really good messaging service that focuses on encryption security and privacy now if they could only do something about all of those terrorists that keep wanting to use their service yes it's true telegram received a lot of press this year after it was reported that Isis encouraged members to use the application in order to talk privately about their various Isis activities so the government's couldn't track them the applications developers caught a little extra flak after some footage from TechCrunch Disrupt was dug up that showed the developers knew that Isis was using their app since then they've tried to make things right by shutting down dozens of Isis channels but they seem to keep coming back this whole development came about after the attacks from Paris so it was fairly recent but so far telegram has seemed to rebound nicely after it cleaned up a bit our loyal readers may remember Yik yak from its inclusion in our most controversial apps of 2014 yes it's here again and believe it or not it managed to top its performance from last year it started with that huge thing at Missouri University that I'm sure most of you have heard about you may have heard about two students who were arrested for issuing death threats to black people correct yeah well they did that on Yik yak that wasn't the only racism that found its way into this application Princeton University has had problems with it all year while a Colorado Springs student was suspended after racist comments concerning black women there has been more than one movement to ban the service from college campuses but they have all been highly unsuccessful so far about all the app developers have done is placed geo fences around middle and high school areas to prevent kids from using it in October of 2015 Google removed the application from its top charts we won't know how effective that will be in the long term but don't be surprised that this app is right back here again next year once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy if you want to check out any of these apps or games if they're still available in the play store will have those linked up for you in the video description below also don't forget to check out these awesome videos we have linked up right over there and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to read the written version will have that linked up for you in the video description below as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day you