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Maybe that's why we've been seeing Path more in App Store top charts recently? Another app doing similar spamming is Circle: http://discovercircle.com http://d

• angersock 13y ago
  Growth hacking through grey-hat tricks? This is an outrage! (your winnings, sir.)
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• micampe 13y ago
  Apps can't send text messages without the user knowing it on iOS, you have to tap Send for each one of them, so this couldn't have affected App Store rankings.
  • ahknight 13y ago
    You presume the app sent it and not their servers or a partner service provider. They already grab your address book, including phone numbers. They don't need you after that.
    • micampe 13y ago
      In that case don't you think we would have seen many more reports of this shady practice? This seems to me a combination of purposefully bad UI and the user not paying attention. Still the same practice spammers use, but very different from "covertly uploading my contacts data and texting everyone without telling me".
      • glesica 13y ago
        Actually the article notes that quite a few other people do seem to have experienced this in the past...