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> App Store rightly does not ban apps on stretches of imagination. Apple has removed the app: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/a-fake-app-masquerading-as-pass

• chrisjj 3y ago
  > Apple has removed the app Fake news. Article does not say Apple removed it. On the contrary: "whether by Apple or the fake app’s developer is yet unclear — Apple has not commented."
  • lapcat 3y ago
    Apple never comments on that, but somehow magically every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears from the App Store.
    • chrisjj 3y ago
      You've still not shown this is a scam app.
      • lapcat 3y ago
        I don't need to show that. It's obvious to everyone except you... and Apple's app reviewers. Maybe you're one of them? Your view is very strange though, because if the app were not a scam, then why would the developer voluntarily pull the app from the store?
        • chrisjj 3y ago
          > I don't need to show that. Agreed. And readers can draw the obvious conclusion from your failure to do so. > if the app were not a scam, why would the developer voluntarily pull the app from the store? To prevent further bad publicity, obviously.
          • lapcat 3y ago
            > And readers can draw the obvious conclusion from your failure to do so. People all over the internet today in various discussion forums, including on HN in multiple submissions, have already drawn the obvious conclusion, without having read my comments, and their conclusion is almost universally the opposite of yours. > To prevent further bad publicity, obviously. It prevents any sales, which is the point of selling in the App Store. But why do you think there's so much bad publicity, if there's nothing wrong with the app? It's unclear why it even matters who exactly removed the app from the App Store, because Apple's rules do not allow developers to deceive App Store users, and you've already more or less admitted that the app is deceptive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308175 Although I don't know how you can justify saying that it's "at most" deception rather than "at least" deception, because "Trusted by over 1+ million users and 10,000+ businesses" is a flat out lie. Thus, even if the developer refused to remove the app, Apple should have anyway.
            • chrisjj 3y ago
              > But why do you think there's so much bad publicity The LastPass claims. > if there's nothing wrong with the app? I didn't say there's nothing wrong with the app. > It's unclear why it even matters who exactly removed the app from the App Store Then I wonder why you are insisting it was Apple.
              • lapcat 3y ago
                > Then I wonder why you are insisting it was Apple. As I already said, "somehow magically every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears from the App Store." Also, self-removal "prevents any sales, which is the point of selling in the App Store." > I didn't say there's nothing wrong with the app. Then I wonder why you are insisting it wasn't Apple. It appears your view is that it's "unsubstantiated" unless Apple comments, but as I already said, Apple never comments about this, so apparently there's never any substantiation according to you, and it's just a giant coincidence that every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears quickly from the store, even when the app's developer may be asleep due to living on the other side of the Earth. It's a very convenient way of sticking your head in the sand and refusing to make the most logical inference.
      • phmqk76 3y ago
        Why are you like this? Pedantically parsing gnat shit out of pepper doesn’t make you smart, it makes you insufferable.
        • sccxy 3y ago
          It is internet moderator syndrome.
        • chrisjj 3y ago
          Why am I challenging "Apple has removed the app" you mean? Because it is unsubstantiated. No pedantry involved.