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I hate to do this, but you've wasted a lot of time with your post and comments. Like many people in this thread, I was frustrated by your refusal to give us bas

I hate to do this, but you've wasted a lot of time with your post and comments. Like many people in this thread, I was frustrated by your refusal to give us basic information such as your company name. You linked to your resume (http://www.constantwanderer.com/resume/ http://www.constantwanderer.com/resume/) a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033815 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033815 Looking at your LinkedIn profile, I see the company name is Mobifusion. Apple's app store has no results, but searching Google's store gives me this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Mobifusion,+Inc https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Mobifusion,+... What does Mobifusion make? Almost 200 apps. A bunch of recipe apps. Lots of cocktail recipe apps. Vegan recipe apps. Various public domain works (Bible, Quran, etc). There are a lot of identical or extremely similar apps. Different versions of the CIA World Factbook. Different versions of the Bible. Some Harry Potter encyclopedias, etc. It's no wonder Apple removed these. It's no wonder you refused to reveal your company. Again, I didn't want to do this, but you tried to take advantage of HN. You falsely painted Apple in a bad light and falsely portrayed your own company as blameless. Shame on you.

calciphus 14y ago
Yep, sounds like an app spammer trying to drum up sympathy and ill-will. And like all spammers, "Some people totally find it useful!"
acuozzo 14y ago
Wow, even his __resume__ looks like spam.
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max929292 14y ago
If you look at the ratings in the Android Market it looks quite fishy. Most apps have tons of five star ratings (especially shortly after release) and all from the same device "Asus Nexus 7" and from similar usernames. Then some apps have very low ratings probably from the real users.
acqq 14y ago
Note his description of his legal problems: "We were in the middle of an especially tenacious individual who was fraudulently claiming we were using a name he did not have a TM on. As our lawyers were trying to solve the problem, we were shut down." Here's the example of his app, priced 2.42 EUR: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobi.android3.NewEarthDeck https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobi.andro... The title of the app uses a best-seller author and book name, and is in fact just the 52 "quotes" from the author. Then, the real-user review shows that the app doesn't deliver even that: "The latest update at first told me my licence was invalid, then when I wouldn't fill in my email address to get spam from mobifusion it would crash and exit."

calciphus 14y ago

Yep, sounds like an app spammer trying to drum up sympathy and ill-will. And like all spammers, "Some people totally find it useful!"

acuozzo 14y ago

Wow, even his __resume__ looks like spam.

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max929292 14y ago

If you look at the ratings in the Android Market it looks quite fishy. Most apps have tons of five star ratings (especially shortly after release) and all from the same device "Asus Nexus 7" and from similar usernames. Then some apps have very low ratings probably from the real users.

acqq 14y ago

Note his description of his legal problems: "We were in the middle of an especially tenacious individual who was fraudulently claiming we were using a name he did not have a TM on. As our lawyers were trying to solve the problem, we were shut down." Here's the example of his app, priced 2.42 EUR: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobi.android3.NewEarthDeck https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobi.andro... The title of the app uses a best-seller author and book name, and is in fact just the 52 "quotes" from the author. Then, the real-user review shows that the app doesn't deliver even that: "The latest update at first told me my licence was invalid, then when I wouldn't fill in my email address to get spam from mobifusion it would crash and exit."