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> $100 to list an app on the App Store and $50-$100 per update Which of the problems exposed in the original twitter thread would be solved by adding these pay
by tekstar 6y ago
> $100 to list an app on the App Store and $50-$100 per update
Which of the problems exposed in the original twitter thread would be solved by adding these payments?
- warp 6y agoI assume the idea is that each update can then be manually reviewed (by an actual human) -- because that's what you're paying for as a developer listing your app. Which should in theory get rid of a lot of scam submissions.
- tekstar 6y agoApple store already has a human review every update.
- robocat 6y agoApple can easily use some of their 30% cut of the scam app profits for validation: Apple certainly makes enough from “successful” scammy paid applications to cover costs as in the article example where Apple is also raking in $10’s of thousands from these fraudulent apps. Obviously free apps need a different mechanism.
- jmull 6y agoScammers rely on iteration to discover and optimize scam approaches, and to adjust when the platform changes things (e.g., to prevent the scam). Scammers need an order of magnitude or more iteration over a legit dev to be very effective, so a per release fee will hit them much harder than legit devs.