This is peanuts VS the sums of money frozen in FTX.
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#302All of this is a direct consequence of allowing a gatekeeper in the first place. Every app developer is fractionally guilty of enabling Apple to position themselves as such. I've built a neat little bit of software and I'm sure I could monetize it by wrapping it up as an app. But there is no way that I'm going to give either Apple or Google more power than they already have so the development of the app is a bit slow…
All of these self-proclaimed “platforms” need to be regulated: no participation in your own platform (Amazon Basics), or at least no self-preferential treatment, caps on platform usage fees closer to 3-5%, neutral and open source search algorithms, limits on advertising.
I’m a capitalist at heart but this is anti-competitive, it’s closer to feudalism than capitalism.
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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 cop…
I don't get how this sort of short-term thinking to the extremth degree is ever worth it or sustainable...
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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This was talked about by Phillip Shoemaker (head of App Store Review 2009-2016) in this talk[0], where some developers figured out that if they hired marketing firms to commit review fraud on a competitor’s app, their competitor would get terminated because there’s no clear way to actually attribute the fraud to the developer. I guess the App Store fraud prevention team hasn’t necessarily found a good solution yet. 0…
> I guess the App Store fraud prevention team hasn’t necessarily found a good solution yet. The most essential device of the century is owned by two companies. The ability for them to completely control software and business activities on top of something that is almost as essential as public transportation is appalling. The DOJ needs to remove the "app store" racket for essential computing devices. Software needs to…
But there are two, which is very different from one.
I'm not sure that adding more would make all that much difference. One player would have absolute pricing power. Two keep one another at least a little in check.
That assumes no collusion, and that's not entirely true, by not completely false either. Many cases of similar behavior are just them responding to the same market in similar ways.
I think that completely free and open player you want isn't going to be much of a competitive advantage. It has a small niche but not enough to break into the insane levels of overhead in creating a complete ecosystem. Especially since most users just want the device to work with a minimum of grief. And especially since the use of public airwaves means a ton of regulation.
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#305Reading a few reviews on the playstore of this apps - instantly tells me that something is off. Asking for review after 20 second of app installation? Also most 5 star reveiw looks fake.
We hired an "app revenue optimization" guy for an hour consultation just to see if we missed something obvious. One thing he suggested was to ask for a review instantly after the paywall. Apparently if you do that, most people will give a 5 star review. We haven't done it since it seems... weird? scammy? but apparently it's a thing that works for maximizing ranking (since reviews are a big influence)
> Apparently if you do that, most people will give a 5 star review. We haven't done it since it seems... weird? scammy?
This is what Uber does. Not just a 'rate your trip' but also the 'add a tip' prompt. Only way to get rid of the screen is to select something or hit Back a bunch of times.
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#306Hitting the front page of Hacker News will lead to a much cheaper resolution of this issue than paying their law firm.
This isn't a Stripe issue.
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Your physical location should mean nothing on the Internet.
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This isn't an Apple problem, it's a problem with every business review platform. If a shady marketing firm takes a contract to give an app fake 5 star reviews, there's no way for the review platform to know if that shady marketing firm was hired by the app's developer or their competitor. Only the marketing firm knows.
If the App Store is the only vehicle for selling mobile apps on Apple devices, then by virtue of their monopoly, they have a duty to be entirely transparent and fair. It’s entirely an Apple problem.
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#309When will the authorities realize that the app stores must be regulated?
30% cuts and you get removed with no warning, negotiation, nothing.
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I'm not GP, but your condescending attitude is not only rude but wrong. Money laundering through things like app sales is a classic technique. It's the modern version of buying "art" that isn't valuable at insane prices. Laundering through an app store incurs a 30% haircut, but the funds are very clean afterward and every money laundering technique is going to cost that much or more. It is not unusual for the launder…
You're really out of your element here. >It's the modern version of buying "art" that isn't valuable at insane prices. That was possible because the art world (at some point in time) enabled this. Apple and its App Store actively prevent this from happening, it's the complete opposite.
Step 1: Create an app and put it in the app store.
Step 2: Generate a bunch of fake accounts in many different countries, and fund them with the dirty money.
Step 3: Have all these accounts buy the app. Make sure you don't have them all buy it at once, or otherwise have a suspicious purchase pattern.
Step 4: Collect the (now clean) funds from the app store,
Okay, how does Apple "actively prevent" this? They don't have to enable anything.