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by valuearb 6y ago
Apple gets thousands of complaints a day. They have to do a detailed investigation or they’ll risk pulling legitimate apps. The apps can also be geofenced so the behavior doesn’t occur in Cupertino. Just because Apple doesn’t immediately re
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by valuearb 6y ago
They probably A/B tested and had a far lower conversion rate when users saw their crappy keyboard.
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by valuearb 6y ago
No it was added specifically after I made my first comment about it here.
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by valuearb 6y ago
You added it only after I called you out here.
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by valuearb 6y ago
That’s exactly what I’m taking about. You only added that after I called you out for your misleading description of Citadel.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Drug “trafficking” should absolutely be legal. While Decriminalization is laudatory and beneficial, it solves far fewer problems than outright legalization. With decriminalization: 1) drug users will still not know what they are actually co
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by valuearb 6y ago
I wrote one of the first comments about the article when it was first posted. I specifically noted the authors confusion on Citadel because the new language was not there.
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by valuearb 6y ago
So if I understand this right, Robinhood destroyed their own reputation and greatly damaged their business, not because the DTCC increased collateral requirements 30x for GME and forced them to raise a billion dollars, but because an easily
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by valuearb 6y ago
And now you are editing your blog after the fact to disguise the misleading allegations about Citadel you made.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I don’t know the specifics of Appkes refund policies, specifically how far back they go in cases like this. But I can say Apple isn’t worried about taking a loss to ensure their customers get treated fairly.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Ok lawyer. That is immaterial and off topic. Apple doesn’t know these are scam apps until reported, and after Apple can verify the allegations. And then Apple typically refunds all customers.
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by valuearb 6y ago
You added this after the fact. The only scam is this poorly researched blog entry.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Ah you added this after the fact. I see you are scrambling to try to retain any credibility. You should be ashamed.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Apple wants developers to deliver a great experience. It’s not a review requirement. The far larger amount of scams and malware on Google Play vs the App Store clearly establishes its value proposition. Even this garden variety scam isn’t l
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by valuearb 6y ago
The binary is never changed. Apps can behave differently based on a flag set in the cloud, that’s only triggered after approval. They can behave differently based on geofencing areas, such as Cupertino. As to the point of whether review mat
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by valuearb 6y ago
This app clearly scammed the App Reviewers. How would you prevent that?
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s extremely difficult for Apple to stop apps from behaving differently during review than they do when downloaded from the App Store. A large number of developers implement schemes like this, and most aren’t scammers. Even if Apple has r
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by valuearb 6y ago
And you suppressed this information in your blog because ???
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by valuearb 6y ago
We need more clarity on why you write such a misleading blog without knowing the facts.
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by valuearb 6y ago
You should stop writing “in depth” articles when you are so woefully misinformed about this event.
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by valuearb 6y ago
So why didn’t you detail this? And what market maker has not been fined for rule violations before? How is this pertinent? We know the DTCC raised the collateral requirements by 30x for GME. Does Ken Griffin own the DTCC too? We know Robinh
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by valuearb 6y ago
There is zero conflict of interest between Robinhood and Citadel investment Group (the investor in Melvin), because they do no significant business together. Robinhood pays Citadel Securities for order flow, which is an entirely different c
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by valuearb 6y ago
Why is this a surprise to anyone? How did customers think Robinhood was making money?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Isn’t the reality that the DTCC was forced to increase collateral requirements? You understand that if GME drops to $80 today, a large number of GME trades from last week are going to refuse to settle. What is Congress going to do? Force t
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by valuearb 6y ago
Wow, they put so much effort into a multi page blog post, yet 1) Misreport the Melvin funder as the market maker Citadel, when it was the investment fund Citadel. Two different entities. 2) Hand waves away settlement issues altogether (neve
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s not the reviewers job to decide if you created a “good” keyboard, just that your app generally does what it says it does. Doing specific feature testing would not be trivial. Your description may say you have the worlds only AI keyboar
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s trivial to create an app to pass review and turns into a scam. Far harder to create an actually good and useful app. On this example, it could have gone like this. They create a simple keypad on the watch, and some subscription screen
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s gonna go fine in front of a judge. They will say look at our terms of service, what we did is explicitly allowed. The judge will immediately rule for them and no public interviews of the CEO/Founders will ever be an issue. Not onl
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by valuearb 6y ago
Robinhood is just one part of stock retail demand, and overall a tiny one. And institutional demand is huge, I guarantee you there were Hedge funds buying GME hoping to provoke margin calls for the shorts too. There is no monolithic blocks
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by valuearb 6y ago
I guarantee Apple automatically refunds users when they ban a scam app. Any iOS user can get a refund from the App Store, they just have to ask, and the process is pretty much automated. Unfortunately few know this. I had a template email f

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