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The whole business model of living off of App stores, controlled by tech giants, is flawed, and no sane person should ever make this their sole source of income. It's like being held hostage.
There is a good argument that the world as a whole would be better off without the current App Store model, but it makes sense for individuals to aim to profit from the existing model.
Russian guy saying that he is in Chile in the first sentence? Absolutely nothing suspicious. https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1215600010141-obschestvo-s-ogran... It is even a Russian company. It was registered a bit before the war started and liquidated not so long ago.
Chile has been a popular destination for Russians to escape the war because it's easy to get a visa and a permanent residency via business immigration.
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It's apple punishing you for their own failure to moderate the reviews posted to their store, which they're charging you $100+30% to access.
If you’ve ever been in the App Store for any length of time you’ll see how lazily retributive Apple is. It’s not a company I’d ever do business with.
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It's apple punishing you for their own failure to moderate the reviews posted to their store, which they're charging you $100+30% to access.
You can moderate reviews of your app in the App Store?? How does that work?
Something feels off... those apps don't seem like 33K/MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?
One way apps get high MRR is by offering free trial for a small period, then charging for subscriptions later The user forgets about the subscriptions and ends up paying for a while before cancelling This is probably what apple means by "bait and switch" Of course I can't say if these app did this or not, I am just saying this is a common practice
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Considering how much data Apple also has on their users, it’s insane that they haven’t yet solved this problem.
Why would they if they can keep aka escrow $100k?
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It's apple punishing you for their own failure to moderate the reviews posted to their store, which they're charging you $100+30% to access.
If you’ve ever been in the App Store for any length of time you’ll see how lazily retributive Apple is. It’s not a company I’d ever do business with.
All these stores are basically little monopolies with zero incentive to not suck. They also suck from a user point of view. Search is terrible, they’re full of shovelware, etc.