{"id":16499,"date":"2016-12-01T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16499"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:44:56","slug":"the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/281849\/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams\/\">Justin Pot<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/11\/28\/mac-app-store-scams\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/281849\/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams\/\"><p>Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice computer user. You have a brand new iMac, and you want to edit some Excel spreadsheets. In the dock you find that App Store you&rsquo;ve heard so much about, so you open it. You find the search bar, then type &ldquo;Microsoft Excel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s&#8230;templates. A $30, 293MB collection of templates, all of which are useless without Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s be blunt: these customers were ripped off, and Apple pocketed $10 each. And you&rsquo;ll only see these comments if you scroll past the two five star reviews that mention the word &ldquo;app&rdquo; numerous times. Both of those reviews, by the way, were left by accounts that haven&rsquo;t reviewed any other apps in the Store.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Search for &ldquo;Indesign&rdquo; and you won&rsquo;t find Adobe&rsquo;s publishing tool, but you will find several bundles of tutorial videos with icons that mimic InDesign&rsquo;s closely.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And other developers seem to be working some dark App Store SEO magic. Search for &ldquo;Firefox&rdquo; or &ldquo;Chrome&rdquo; and the top application is &ldquo;Fast Browser,&rdquo; a $1 app that hasn&rsquo;t been updated since 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Pot (via John Gruber): Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice computer user. You have a brand new iMac, and you want to edit some Excel spreadsheets. In the dock you find that App Store you&rsquo;ve heard so much about, so you open it. You find the search bar, then [&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":"2021-02-08T19:45:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"54a38baa-3ed3-4c4b-8cc0-66a7b7f8ff62","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-08T19:45:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVKOLqj7TTEuMwGant_j_Yg","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":[2036,279,456,945,30,32,39,577,343],"class_list":["post-16499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-store-scams","tag-firefox","tag-googlechrome","tag-indesign","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-microsoft-office","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499","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=16499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16500,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499\/revisions\/16500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}