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John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Kosta Eleftheriou has found another apparently multi-million-dollar-grossing app that’s been on the App Store for over three years: a shitty music “volume boosting” music player named AmpMe that costs $10 per week<\/em> after the three-day trial. Thousands of obviously fake reviews, millions of dollars “earned”. Even worse: Apple has repeated featured<\/em> this app in the App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s apparently no motivation to vet even the relatively small number of apps that are making millions, even before featuring them.<\/p>\n\n

Harry McCracken<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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15 years after the iPhone was announced, the fact that the App Store is both a walled garden AND a wild west is one of the great disappointments of this whole era.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n