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Would be nice if the company taking 30% of my sales would offer some assistance.
I suppose you could do a DMCA takedown? but that would really seem like using a morally compromised solution for good, as opposed to the more normal using morally neutral solutions for good.
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I think we have two very distinct student lives in mind: The one I know most students have, is living very frugally, cooking at home, counting every penny to not go into more debt, studying hard to get a head start in life and partying hard on a budget, mostly house parties with booze bought from the supermarket with the occasional club or restaurant outing being a treat. The other one is the Instagram lifestyle stud…
1000-2000 a month is hardly “jet setting” and has nothing to do with instagram. We are talking the difference between living in a shared accommodation and maybe having a small apartment, maybe having a used car, etc. Plenty of students get bankrolled by a combination of scholarships, their parents, and loans, and have for decades. There’s nothing wrong with it (or with going the frugal route either). Edit: To live in…
A student having their own apartment (and a car??) is already a luxury 99% of the world will never experience.
Unfortunate, but in the end it is Apple's platform and they have the right to allow anybody they see fit. I'm sure Apple will earn more from the scam app than the real one, since the scam has an exorbitant weekly subscription, so I can see Apple's incentive. If the OP doesn't like it he can make his own Iphone/iwatch with it's own app store and sell billions of phones and watches. Then use those to distribute his app…
Oh my god, they don't even bother implementing the app any more... It reminds me of my first App Store experience. I made an app that was somewhat successful (about 2000€ a month, enough to pay for a students living expenses). Within short time, a chinese speaking developer cloned it. They copied the icon (slighlty different color), they copied the UI, they even copied all the text in the dialog boxes. They released…
[Posting here on the assumption the parent comment will likely stay at the top] What about... a service, that helps walk you through these kinds of situations, handles country-specific implementation details, can help figure out the best approach for a given scenario, and give you the best chance of getting things sorted out... ...and... ...is NOT a "welcome, welcome, one and all" type of environment, and requires Tw…
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In this case, isn't the recipient company Apple?
No, and that's where/why the whole "service provider" thing can get interesting. In this case Apple just hands your DMCA notice to the alleged infringer.
Refers to the 'power' it gives to developers to soar high on a dragon and wield unknown riches and promise for a time.
Then sometime the dragon coughs, and well you get burned to a crisp ... Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Youtube are all dragons (naming only those).
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Then enforce your copyright. No one will do it for you.
Would be nice if the company taking 30% of my sales would offer some assistance.
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[Posting here on the assumption the parent comment will likely stay at the top] What about... a service, that helps walk you through these kinds of situations, handles country-specific implementation details, can help figure out the best approach for a given scenario, and give you the best chance of getting things sorted out... ...and... ...is NOT a "welcome, welcome, one and all" type of environment, and requires Tw…
That sounds suspiciously like a "union rep."
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I suppose you could do a DMCA takedown? but that would really seem like using a morally compromised solution for good, as opposed to the more normal using morally neutral solutions for good.
What would be the morally compromised part? He owns the copyright.
Most often things are morally neutral, and can be used for good or bad, some things are morally bad and it is difficult to use them for morally good things, and some things are morally good and it is difficult to use for morally bad. But most things are morally neutral. I think the DMCA is morally bad, but here he can use it for a moral good. But even when you use a morally bad thing for good it is still slightly bad, as in people could point at his usage here (if he chose to use it) and say "see the DMCA isn't bad" and the benefit for the bad solution his good usage promotes would taint his good usage ever so slightly.
As I tend to be more of a pragmatist I would say use the DMCA takedown if possible, but I can understand someone else feeling that would be bad.
An app that does nothing passed review? I hope this doesn't happen often, and that the processes are reviewed. May be reviewers have too much work to do and just click OK sometimes to move on? Also, I understand that the App store has a million apps, and they can't be super thorough with all of them. What I don't understand is how an app that is actually getting a lot of downloads and reviews, and that charges a huge…