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Completely different type of applications, I remember an old thread on twitter about one useless wallpapers app being sold for that kind of money. And it was no

Completely different type of applications, I remember an old thread on twitter about one useless wallpapers app being sold for that kind of money. And it was not the only one. It's a business model.

paxys 4y ago
Not sure what "useless wallpaper" app you are talking about but I just took a look at https://bendingspoons.com/products https://bendingspoons.com/products and everything there seems pretty useful and well designed.
- agos 4y ago
  if you browse Bending Spoons' site on archive.org you'll see that a few years ago they indeed sold wallpaper apps and keyboard apps for debatable prices. They had even more apps, but most of them were removed entirely from their portfolio, and some ended up in the account of Easy Tiger Apps, LLC [1], including a 4,99€/week step counting app that is a blatant rip off of a more famous one [1]: https://apps.apple.com/tz/developer/easy-tiger-apps-llc/id570748343 https://apps.apple.com/tz/developer/easy-tiger-apps-llc/id57...
- Manjuuu 4y ago
  That minuscule subset is well designed, yes, the rest decent BUT some of them with in my opinion predatory pricing in many cases, $9/wk to download some wallpaper or some sleep noises app. But yes, they are not the only ones doing it. If you are interested search on the appstore among the boatload of apps they have.
  - paxys 4y ago
    Okay well you should be able to link to a single one then.. I still can't find any examples of how this company is fraudulent.
    - offtotheraces 4y ago
      search “wallpapers” in the app store and try the top results: 1. 188k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id1069361548 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 2. 120k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id1069361548 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 3. 243k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpapers-widgets-myscreen/id1039845801 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpapers-widgets-myscreen/id... Tricking users into these high priced subscriptions is a tried and true strategy in the app store. The press caught on late (2018) but it was happening from the moment apple opened up subscriptions to all developers in June 2016. Started with crappy coloring book apps and then spread like wildfire from there. Bending Spoons is simply the evolution of that. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-plaguing-the-app-store/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-p...
    - Manjuuu 4y ago
      I wouldn't say "fraudolent", no laws are being broken here. And I'm not trying to be snarky with this, but I'm not doing your research for you on a well known issue of the App Store. I'm ok if you keep being not aware of it. This specific company has a decade long history of being in the grey zone in regard to App Store rules. Like many others, yes, but let's not normalize it.

Completely different type of applications, I remember an old thread on twitter about one useless wallpapers app being sold for that kind of money. And it was not the only one. It's a business model.

paxys 4y ago

Not sure what "useless wallpaper" app you are talking about but I just took a look at https://bendingspoons.com/products https://bendingspoons.com/products and everything there seems pretty useful and well designed.

agos 4y ago
if you browse Bending Spoons' site on archive.org you'll see that a few years ago they indeed sold wallpaper apps and keyboard apps for debatable prices. They had even more apps, but most of them were removed entirely from their portfolio, and some ended up in the account of Easy Tiger Apps, LLC [1], including a 4,99€/week step counting app that is a blatant rip off of a more famous one [1]: https://apps.apple.com/tz/developer/easy-tiger-apps-llc/id570748343 https://apps.apple.com/tz/developer/easy-tiger-apps-llc/id57...
Manjuuu 4y ago
That minuscule subset is well designed, yes, the rest decent BUT some of them with in my opinion predatory pricing in many cases, $9/wk to download some wallpaper or some sleep noises app. But yes, they are not the only ones doing it. If you are interested search on the appstore among the boatload of apps they have.
- paxys 4y ago
  Okay well you should be able to link to a single one then.. I still can't find any examples of how this company is fraudulent.
  - offtotheraces 4y ago
    search “wallpapers” in the app store and try the top results: 1. 188k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id1069361548 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 2. 120k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id1069361548 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 3. 243k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpapers-widgets-myscreen/id1039845801 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpapers-widgets-myscreen/id... Tricking users into these high priced subscriptions is a tried and true strategy in the app store. The press caught on late (2018) but it was happening from the moment apple opened up subscriptions to all developers in June 2016. Started with crappy coloring book apps and then spread like wildfire from there. Bending Spoons is simply the evolution of that. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-plaguing-the-app-store/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-p...
  - Manjuuu 4y ago
    I wouldn't say "fraudolent", no laws are being broken here. And I'm not trying to be snarky with this, but I'm not doing your research for you on a well known issue of the App Store. I'm ok if you keep being not aware of it. This specific company has a decade long history of being in the grey zone in regard to App Store rules. Like many others, yes, but let's not normalize it.