PMZ, I wonder if you actually read the article? (Or at least the portion you commented on.)
Quote: Originally Posted by pmz
How did Phil Schiller become VP of anything with the writing skills demonstrated above?
Since ... Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider
In a letter to Apple executive Phil Schiller, SCW laid out the case:
... states that this was written by SCW to Phil Schiller and not the other way around.
SCW brought the information to the "attention" of Phil Schiller (or at the very least let it be known that someone had noticed this developers behavior) regardless of the sentence structure.
Note: You loose validity when you are making reading comprehension errors, so I would suggest making sure about what you are stating prior to submitting a reply.
Anyone know how much Molinker typically charged for these apps? Probably the reason Molinker got away with this for long enough to flood the store with 1000 apps and bogus reviews is by keeping the cost of downloads relatively low. Unless you swindle someone out of a hefty chunk of change, the buyer is not as likely to lodge a complaint or start looking into the scam. Truly, Molinker made its bucks as a nickel-and-dimer - a petty cheater at best who should go back to trying to swindle gullible seniors or ghost-writing Internet letters for Nigerian "financiers."
However, Mac Apps are not exclusively distributed through one portal with absolutely no organization, or visual way to differentiate quality apps from total garbage.
What is the difference between selling a Mac app via your website or to have a link to your iPhone app in the Appstore on your website?
I fail to see what is the difference to processing your app sales via something like Kagi, Paypal or the Appstore. Nobody forces you to only 'sell' (in the wider sense of its meaning) your iPhone app via the Appstore, you only have to the actual sales processing done by it.
Do you only find Mac apps because they are listed on Apple's website?
If they were the sort of developers who fraudulently write star reviews for their own apps, their apps may not have been of much value anyway.
To write such a great number of apps within the relatively short span of time that the iPhone has existed would seem to preclude spending a large amount of time on any particular one of those apps.
The apps still had to pass through approval so they must have at least mostly performed their claimed function. It isn't like they were necessarily making fake apps, they were just caught trying to boost their own ratings to get their apps out & visible over others.
I'm glad they got pulled when the fraud was discovered but I suspect there are a lot of really good developers who have considered doing this same thing because of how difficult it is to be seen amongst the multitude of apps available on app store. Apple may have added "New & Noteworthy" to the iTunes App Store but it is still absent from the iPhone/iPod and that is ridiculous!
What is the difference between selling a Mac app via your website or to have a link to your iPhone app in the Appstore on your website?
I fail to see what is the difference to processing your app sales via something like Kagi, Paypal or the Appstore. Nobody forces you to only 'sell' (in the wider sense of its meaning) your iPhone app via the Appstore, you only have to the actual sales processing done by it.
Do you only find Mac apps because they are listed on Apple's website?
Actually it's kind of different than all that too. It's probably closest to something like ebay where you can use their store front to get your product out there but then many companies on ebay also have their own site. Course ebay doesn't ship your item from their own warehouse so that part is kind of different.
Since a developer can list their iPhone apps on their own company store, is there something in the legal saying they can't link their app on another site like say a 3rd party app store? I'm sure Apple does have something regarding that but I've never read the EULA. Anyone?
Pity for Apple, too. 1% of the App Store is no small deal.
yes but rumor has it that said apps weren't that awesome anyway. which is why the guy had to pad his reviews at all.
plus poor Phil has had to handle all the pissed off customers and developers for months. pulling a guy that was doing this kind of not cool game raises Phil's street cred with the App Community. and that alone is probably worth more than the pennies made off these apps. especially once the more truthful reviews had started coming in.
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Whoever you are, do you honestly think that Apple doesn't care about the QUALITY of apps on the store?
Fart apps.
Quote:
Originally Posted by pmz
How did Phil Schiller become VP of anything with the writing skills demonstrated above?
Since ... Quote:
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
In a letter to Apple executive Phil Schiller, SCW laid out the case:
... states that this was written by SCW to Phil Schiller and not the other way around.
SCW brought the information to the "attention" of Phil Schiller (or at the very least let it be known that someone had noticed this developers behavior) regardless of the sentence structure.
Fart apps.
A good quality one beats a poor one any day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3q3x-vB_JE
on the other hand - is there a better way to get publicity for your app than to complain about apple's approval process?
SNIP
As of Monday night, Molinker's website had no mention of what had transpired.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
...and it looks as of Tuesday afternoon the company has dropped off the interwebs altogether...
However, the terrible writing in the correspondence quoted above is creepy - the stuff of aphasia.
However, Mac Apps are not exclusively distributed through one portal with absolutely no organization, or visual way to differentiate quality apps from total garbage.
What is the difference between selling a Mac app via your website or to have a link to your iPhone app in the Appstore on your website?
I fail to see what is the difference to processing your app sales via something like Kagi, Paypal or the Appstore. Nobody forces you to only 'sell' (in the wider sense of its meaning) your iPhone app via the Appstore, you only have to the actual sales processing done by it.
Do you only find Mac apps because they are listed on Apple's website?
Good. Keep the clean-up going, Apple.
Agreed. And I am a small iPhone developer as well. Which isn't to say that I only develop for small iPhones. I just have a very small presence.
If they were the sort of developers who fraudulently write star reviews for their own apps, their apps may not have been of much value anyway.
To write such a great number of apps within the relatively short span of time that the iPhone has existed would seem to preclude spending a large amount of time on any particular one of those apps.
The apps still had to pass through approval so they must have at least mostly performed their claimed function. It isn't like they were necessarily making fake apps, they were just caught trying to boost their own ratings to get their apps out & visible over others.
I'm glad they got pulled when the fraud was discovered but I suspect there are a lot of really good developers who have considered doing this same thing because of how difficult it is to be seen amongst the multitude of apps available on app store. Apple may have added "New & Noteworthy" to the iTunes App Store but it is still absent from the iPhone/iPod and that is ridiculous!
What is the difference between selling a Mac app via your website or to have a link to your iPhone app in the Appstore on your website?
I fail to see what is the difference to processing your app sales via something like Kagi, Paypal or the Appstore. Nobody forces you to only 'sell' (in the wider sense of its meaning) your iPhone app via the Appstore, you only have to the actual sales processing done by it.
Do you only find Mac apps because they are listed on Apple's website?
Actually it's kind of different than all that too. It's probably closest to something like ebay where you can use their store front to get your product out there but then many companies on ebay also have their own site. Course ebay doesn't ship your item from their own warehouse so that part is kind of different.
Since a developer can list their iPhone apps on their own company store, is there something in the legal saying they can't link their app on another site like say a 3rd party app store? I'm sure Apple does have something regarding that but I've never read the EULA. Anyone?
Pity for Apple, too. 1% of the App Store is no small deal.
yes but rumor has it that said apps weren't that awesome anyway. which is why the guy had to pad his reviews at all.
plus poor Phil has had to handle all the pissed off customers and developers for months. pulling a guy that was doing this kind of not cool game raises Phil's street cred with the App Community. and that alone is probably worth more than the pennies made off these apps. especially once the more truthful reviews had started coming in.