{"id":6580,"date":"2012-11-20T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:45:05","slug":"app-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/app-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"App Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/app-scams\/\">Cabel Sasser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/app-scams\/\"><p>1. Scammer makes an extremely simple iOS app and submits it to Apple.<\/p>\n<p>2. Once it&rsquo;s approved, they change the screenshots, description, and name &mdash; things you can edit at any time.  Piggyback off a popular game!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like demos\/trials would be an easy solution to this problem. The same basic issue applies to legitimate apps. I&rsquo;ve had people buy my apps from the Mac App Store and be unhappy because they did not include a feature that they thought would be in the app, but which wasn&rsquo;t mentioned in the description.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this also happens, to an extent, for apps purchased directly from my Web site. But these are easier to deal with because I can quickly refund the purchase at no cost, whereas with the Mac App Store I have to direct the customer to Apple support, which has an official policy of not offering refunds.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-01-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/index.php?id=1092013a\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/index.php?id=1092013a\"><p>Beginning January 9, app screenshots will be locked in iTunes Connect once your app has been approved. New screenshots may be uploaded when you submit a binary for an update to an existing app or a new app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be better if Apple could approve screenshot changes without requiring a new binary that may take weeks to review.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabel Sasser: 1. Scammer makes an extremely simple iOS app and submits it to Apple. 2. Once it&rsquo;s approved, they change the screenshots, description, and name &mdash; things you can edit at any time. Piggyback off a popular game! It seems like demos\/trials would be an easy solution to this problem. The same basic issue [&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":"2021-02-08T19:45:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"53ca5230-bd9d-4219-b40b-f84795e49aac","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-08T19:45:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AU8pSML2dQhm0C_hHleSarA","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":[91,2036,31,26],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-scams","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","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=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31583,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/31583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}