Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription Apps Off the App Store

Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by dawnerd on Saturday October 20, 2018 @12:23PM (#18263972)

Tweetbot has done that too - conveniently right before twitter cut off some api access making the app just an expensive ad free twitter client. I have no doubt they quickly pushed out v4 just to get a bump of cash. V5 just came out too (although this time a free upgrade).

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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by bdcravens on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:04PM (#18264194)

v5 does prompt for an IAP (they're calling it a tip)

Personally I paid the highest option ($4.99) because I know I've gotten plenty of value out of it, but I suspect most won't and there'll be pitchfork gathering about their "spammy popups"

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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by lancewiggs on Saturday October 20, 2018 @11:22PM (#18266587)

I paid for the upgrade just before deprecation of the API and except Tweetbot, and now their spammy pop ups are turning my admiration to annoyance and worse. The only reason I see for it is that they have decided they product (through Twitter’s actions) is doomed and are trying to milk has hard as they can.

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