Re:A top-grossing scam on the App Store
by CivBase on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:23PM
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> Also note that there are entire classes of scams that never get click baity titles because Apple DOES detect them and shut them down before they're widespread.
That's beside the point. According to the thread, Apple detected this one. So why didn't they shut it down? The thread speculates that it's because Apple is making significant revenue from it and, frankly, that sounds like a logical conclusion - at least until Apple can be bothered to remove the app or explain their justification for leaving it up.
Besides, doesn't Apple manually review apps on their store? I've read story after story of app devs complaining about how that review process screwed them over in one way or another. Surely one of the top 500 highest grossing apps on their store would garner at least a little extra attention in a manual review, right? How did this even slip through the cracks in the first place?
Re:A top-grossing scam on the App Store
by fencepost on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:50PM
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There may be an element of distributed responsibility ("if it's not A person's job, it's no person's job"), but there may also be "it couldn't have gotten this far if there was a problem."
That's beside the point. According to the thread, Apple detected this one. So why didn't they shut it down? The thread speculates that it's because Apple is making significant revenue from it and, frankly, that sounds like a logical conclusion - at least until Apple can be bothered to remove the app or explain their justification for leaving it up.
Besides, doesn't Apple manually review apps on their store? I've read story after story of app devs complaining about how that review process screwed them over in one way or another. Surely one of the top 500 highest grossing apps on their store would garner at least a little extra attention in a manual review, right? How did this even slip through the cracks in the first place?