{"id":19684,"date":"2017-11-30T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19684"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:01:31","slug":"cloudapp-for-imobile-scam-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/cloudapp-for-imobile-scam-app\/","title":{"rendered":"CloudApp for iMobile Scam App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bylr.net\/3\/2017\/11\/99month-is-a-steal-for-cloudapp-for-imobile\/\">Dan Byler<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanirelan\/status\/936036813059383296\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bylr.net\/3\/2017\/11\/99month-is-a-steal-for-cloudapp-for-imobile\/\">\n<p>While browsing for an iOS-native service like Droplr or CloudApp, I came across and downloaded the &ldquo;free&rdquo; app <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cloudapp-for-imobile-cloud-drive-app-sync-data\/id1278746021?mt=8\">CloudApp for iMobile &#x2013; Cloud Drive App Sync Data<\/a>. Astoundingly, this app trades on the reputations of both iCloud and CloudApp to scam users into paying $99\/month for iCloud services.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I nearly fell prey to the scam myself: while screenshotting the app, I accidentally subscribed (because of the way TouchID is integrated into the home button &#x2013; and the home button is part of taking screenshots)[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s maddening that garbage like this gets through the App Store review process when legitimate developers providing truly useful services are stymied all the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Byler (via John Gruber): While browsing for an iOS-native service like Droplr or CloudApp, I came across and downloaded the &ldquo;free&rdquo; app CloudApp for iMobile &#x2013; Cloud Drive App Sync Data. Astoundingly, this app trades on the reputations of both iCloud and CloudApp to scam users into paying $99\/month for iCloud services. [&#8230;] I [&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":[],"tags":[91,31,1472,26,282,573],"class_list":["post-19684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp","tag-screenshots","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684","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=19684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19685,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684\/revisions\/19685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}