{"id":12942,"date":"2015-11-29T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2015-11-29T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:01:30","slug":"the-worst-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/29\/the-worst-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2015\/the-worst-app\/\">Allen Pike<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/linked\/the-worst-app\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2015\/the-worst-app\/\"><p>The app&rsquo;s website link on the App Store went to <a href=\"http:\/\/skyhdapp.com\">an unrelated company<\/a>, and the copyright credit was for <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderbox.io\">another unrelated company<\/a>. I contacted them, and they were as confused as I was. With no way to contact the actual creator of the app, the only solution was to get Apple to pull it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>These weren&rsquo;t emails for a Steamclock app at all. [&#8230;] Turns out, this is my problem. One email a month turned into one a week, then one a day, then multiple every day. Soon I was spending more time dealing with support for Music Player &amp; Playlist Playtube manager than I was for our actual apps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When customers complained to Apple about the scam app that was directing technical support to <em>his<\/em> company, they were told to contact <em>him.<\/em> And then:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2015\/the-worst-app\/\"><p>Yesterday I got an unexpected email, congratulating me on launching some app called &ldquo;Feeling Drawing&rdquo;. I checked the store, and sure enough a new app had just gone live, featuring virtually the same icon as the Playtube app, but this time called Feeling Drawing and attributed to &ldquo;Solaro Nohimdad&rdquo;. This time, the app&rsquo;s support website was listed as steamclock.com. They even went as far to proclaim the app &ldquo;&copy; Steamclock&rdquo;. In the immortal words of Stephanie, OHHH HELL NO.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Pike (via Federico Viticci): The app&rsquo;s website link on the App Store went to an unrelated company, and the copyright credit was for another unrelated company. I contacted them, and they were as confused as I was. With no way to contact the actual creator of the app, the only solution was to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,31,26],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}