Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen

Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by silenced_trope on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:39PM (#38395963)

pretty clever, it reminds me of the early days of the app store when apps would be taken down for copyright strikes but if you provided proof you'd be given "immunity" from further strikes taking down your app while Apple investigates

it became a strategy to copyright strike your own app, have proof ready so that no downtime was necessary, then you have the temporary immunity so that competitors couldn't submit a copyright strike, which costed them nothing to do and had no consequences if they were wrong about it

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by Obscurity4340 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:40PM (#38396629)

I don't get how this sort of short-term thinking to the extremth degree is ever worth it or sustainable...

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by CamperBob2 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:05PM (#38396919)

Blame Apple for forcing developers (and encouraging bad guys) to spend more time thinking about the App Store rules than they do themselves.

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by lmm on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:37PM (#38398440)

It probably isn't now, but in the early days the iphone app store was a giant pinata full of money for anyone who wanted to knock up a flashlight app or whatever.

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by araes on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:00PM (#38398049)

This is actually what I started thinking when I got to the end of the article. Maybe just immediate human snatch and grab cynicism.

That the author hired somebody to dump review, does something fishy with money like those above noted, and then sues for more money.

Levine over at Bloomberg had an interesting article where ransomware gangs are now filing SEC reports, as a way to pressure companies to pay, or minimize ROI.

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