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Thank you. I'm trying to get it out by the end of July at the latest.

Hello HN. I've been working remotely since the early 2000s and managing teams since 2011 or so, mostly remotely (whenever I can). During the pandemic I helped the non-remote parts of my company become remote and then I jumped online to help anyone that I could with the transition (this wasn't a service, I did it for free, it was important to me and the world was hurting).

Out of those conversations I ended up with the table of contents of what then became this book. The writing part of the book is done, most of the proof reading has been finished, and I just sent it to be formatted for print and ebook.

I also bought a bunch of ISBNs and registered my consulting company as a publisher to _self-publish_. I don't know why, but I'm finding the process very interesting. I love learning about how other parts of the world work.

That is correct. It applies whenever a computer program goes from US soil to non-US soil. Wether it's Apple's App Store, Google Play or carrier pigeon, it's the same.

I think the process had two issues. The main one being several steps that though simple, were not specified anywhere, so, figuring them out took a lot of time and phone calls. It's like someone tells you to drive from point A to B, that's easy, but they don't tell you were the car is.

The second problem was a lot of jargon that was in my opinion unnecessary and was internal US government leaking to the end users and you had to learn it to understand the documentation about what to do. Figuring out what SNAP-R stood for took me way to long and it's nothing more than a website registration (from my point of view).

To add to that, maybe Apple is more liable because of their promises to check for quality and problems in the store, while Google allows more things in it. That just means a change for them, you, as the app maker, are always liable.

Apple requires the ERN because Apple is very US centric. For Google, there might be cases in which the ERN is not required because the app never leaves the US (because for other countries it comes from other countries).

Apple is required the ERN to cover their asses, I believe. The ERN is required by the US government, so, if you don't have it, you are breaking the law whether you are using Google Play or Apple. So, you should get it for Google Play too.

My personal opinion, which is not that of a lawyer, is that yes, nearly every app developer will need an ERN.