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the app store is the monopoly. afaik there's no other way to get apps on your apple device.
You are free to buy a non-Apple phone... because Apple does not have a monopoly.
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Choose a better government, then. Preferably, a one without Soviet/death cult/imperialistic tendencies. The nation will be judged by its government's actions, because the gov is supposed to be kept in check by the people.
> Choose a better government, then. Do you know how ridiculous you sound right now?
Looks like Russian majority has been supporting occupation of Georgia, occupation of Crimea and probably now doesn't care about current occupation of Ukraine.
Ruling party was reelected before, during and after that.
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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…
If Apple isn't able to police this then maybe it's unhealthy for the market to be completely controlled by them. They make billions off the AppStore and their refusal to reinvest in proper moderation (especially for an app worth hundreds of thousands in revenue) is quite telling.
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the app store is the monopoly. afaik there's no other way to get apps on your apple device.
You are free to buy a non-Apple phone... because Apple does not have a monopoly.
This is a disingenuous line of reasoning.
Once you buy a phone you are locked into using a specific marketplace, where Apple has complete control.
This doesn't need to occur. An open marketplace or multiple marketplaces could be possible.
For all intents and purposes, Apple does have a monopoly.
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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…
If Apple isn't able to police this then maybe it's unhealthy for the market to be completely controlled by them. They make billions off the AppStore and their refusal to reinvest in proper moderation (especially for an app worth hundreds of thousands in revenue) is quite telling.
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> 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…
As you mention two companies I can only assume the other is Google and android. Which I find odd as I have multiple other appstores and repositories on my phone and every other android device I have owned. My phones and tablets usually come with not just the Google Play Store, but also the manufacturers app store, and I install fdroid on all my android devices, and have in the past installed the Amazon app store on m…
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> Could you enlighten us? How does one launder money through some iOS apps? You use stolen credit cards to purchase the app. It's a very common method of fraud and does not require a criminal mastermind or a group of people to perform. I have no opinion on what happened in this particular case, but it's crazy to imply that nobody is doing this stuff.
How would you get the money you possess and want to launder on the stolen credit card? That more sounds like a method to extract money from stolen credit cards, but not a valid way to launder money.
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You are free to buy a non-Apple phone... because Apple does not have a monopoly.
So how do you get an app onto the iphone if they don't have a monopoly on apps on their phones? What other store can I use to get apps on a iPhone?
However, not all hardware is created by them. You're free to purchase a different phone, and you can even make the number of app stores supported a primary buying decision.
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>it almost always involves putting cash into a bank account Yeah, I edited my comment shortly after but you were already writing this probably. Only an observation, it almost always starts as money flowing into a bank account, though. >If the developer's dirty sources need to layer their funds, they can subscribe to the app and have it laundered for a meagre 30% haircut. No, because you cannot pay for apps with cash.…
A (stolen) credit card isn't cash. The whole operation here is to turn someone else's credit line into usable funds. But also, why would sending funds to Apple make them dirty? That doesn't make sense—as GP pointed out, sending funds to Apple so that Apple sends those funds back to you is what makes the money clean. It's the difference between depositing $50k in your bank account from a drug deal and getting a $50k d…
No, because it is extremely easy for anyone to see that these funds came from an illegal activity, Apple would just say "these were stolen credit cards" within hours of it happening. That's the literal opposite of concealing the origin of money.
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>those apps don't seem like 33K/MRR worthy It's 6 of them, so more like ~5K USD/month revenue. I'm sorry that you've never built something meaningful, but that revenue bracket is actually low for a decent app with some marketing going on.
I can only hope to one day build something as meaningful as "Fontly Color Fonts." Alas, there can only be so many geniuses capable of sculpting meaning out of the chaos that is the aether.