> "There are a lot of legitimate uses for IAP" I agree that good apps and good uses exists, that's just the minority in what I've personally seen. The only ap

> "There are a lot of legitimate uses for IAP" I agree that good apps and good uses exists, that's just the minority in what I've personally seen. The only app I have personally used that had reasonable IAP was Camera+. And to be fair, I hand-waved 90% not considering subscriptions. [1] If we roll those in, I agree there's a much lower rate of 'smurfberry' use. > "Apple has taken steps to mitigate the issue" Sorry if I've missed that. But last I checked they had just changed the top-revenue rankings to include IAP, and smurfberry-bearing titles shot to the top. To change that algorithm the way they did looks more like celebrating that nonsense. [2] [1] I've been thinking of subscriptions as their own beast for a while and just didn't think of them. But I do agree, they're IAP. [2] Surely Apple tested the proposed ranking change and rolled it out knowing full well what titles would dominate under that scheme.