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pretty clever, it reminds me of the early days of the app store when apps would be taken down for copyright strikes but if you provided proof you'd be given "im
by silenced_trope 3y ago
pretty clever, it reminds me of the early days of the app store when apps would be taken down for copyright strikes but if you provided proof you'd be given "immunity" from further strikes taking down your app while Apple investigates
it became a strategy to copyright strike your own app, have proof ready so that no downtime was necessary, then you have the temporary immunity so that competitors couldn't submit a copyright strike, which costed them nothing to do and had no consequences if they were wrong about it
- Obscurity4340 3y agoI don't get how this sort of short-term thinking to the extremth degree is ever worth it or sustainable...
- CamperBob2 3y agoBlame Apple for forcing developers (and encouraging bad guys) to spend more time thinking about the App Store rules than they do themselves.
- lmm 3y agoIt probably isn't now, but in the early days the iphone app store was a giant pinata full of money for anyone who wanted to knock up a flashlight app or whatever.
- araes 3y agoThis is actually what I started thinking when I got to the end of the article. Maybe just immediate human snatch and grab cynicism. That the author hired somebody to dump review, does something fishy with money like those above noted, and then sues for more money. Levine over at Bloomberg had an interesting article where ransomware gangs are now filing SEC reports, as a way to pressure companies to pay, or minimize ROI.