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I have an app, that I sell with App Store (OpenIn). So the Openly used to be called OpenIn Pro. Only because this app looked like a fraud, I submitted a trademark violation. The author of the app replied with a lot of confidence, that I was attacking their company, etc. But they have changed the name to Openly at the end.

My complain was that this app definitely have a lot of fake reviews, and my guess by being free they can generate a lot of downloads to keep it in top of the app store. And you can see a few of bad reviews, where some people actually purchased the app via in-app-purchases. And the name of my app brings traffic to the app store, and they use it in their advantage.

He called it false accusations. That they trust apple reviews, and that apple take it seriously. And a lot of well written text protecting themselves.

He was referring also to the head of legal department that they might take actions against me for false accusations.

Anyway, after that I just downloaded their apps and submitted concerns about legitimacy of their apps. That did not do anything.

I am surprised that those apps exist. Feel like they are 100% scam. My only guess is that somehow the people from review team know those developers and somehow let them to be on app store. Considering how hard sometimes to pass the review, that is the only explanation I have.




Apple doesn't mind scams that make Apple money and don't erode the Apple brand image.


But of course, Tim Cook likes to whine about Zuckerberg's hypocrisy on fees (which isn't happening yet), and complain about imaginary privacy nightmares if sideloading is allowed on iOS, while ignoring the very real and very current scams on their precious appstore.


> My only guess is that somehow the people from review team know those developers and somehow let them to be on app store. Considering how hard sometimes to pass the review, that is the only explanation I have.

The explanation is simple: it's an app that makes Apple money, so of course Apple is going to let it through unchallenged.

Apple is not consumers' BFF - it's the BFF of their shareholders, for which they'll do anything to please.




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