Another $1 million scam app surfaces amid App Store legal battles

Other than the very few apps I use on my iPhone, I rarely use or download anything from the App Store.  My recent use of it a few months ago due to COVID stay-at-home boredom had me going on the App Store to view games.

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

launfall said:

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

Nothing is 100% perfect.  Yes, the App Store has its problems and yes, perhaps Apple is getting cocky with how it manages it, but I'll gladly take it over Android any day where scam apps are the norm, not the exception.

And Epic wants it to be MORE like Android!

launfall said:

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

Just the opposite. The ability of scam apps will reinforce the Walled Garden approach and the importance of Apple putting more resources into Walling-up the App Store -- which costs money.

It even suggests that Apple shouldn't be giving away the App Store for free to developers. It makes no sense for developers to be in business if they don't make any money from their efforts -- that's not a business. If you're not making money by selling to your customer, and you're in business, you must be making money some other way -- selling the customer, scamming the customer? 

launfall said:

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

I agree that Apple needs a crew to clean up the App Store, I don’t think that this helps Epic’s breach of contract with them. Epic has to prove they were harmed and their actions are justified after being harmed, which is going to be hard to prove, even after deposing all of the Apple execs they want to. 

The bottom line for the case is, why did you agree to the terms if you felt you were unfairly treated, and why didn’t you terminate the agreement and sue instead of violating the agreement and get thrown out of the App Store and then sue?

just because you feel like you are getting screwed does not give you the right to violate the agreement and change the terms unilaterally. If it did we would have millions of cases flooding the legal system.