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danox said:

Not interested in Google, or Amazon when comes to giving them more info sorry Apple....

You don't have to. Keep buying Apple. Its just a standardisation, a protocol.  You can buy what you want though.

good show, surprised it didn't get some more nominations. 

Wow, the 1 star reviews are damming. 

Was charged for app from a pop up. Could not find a way to contact and request refund. Had to contact apple and report it. Was told I would be refunded. Still waiting for the refund. Will be reporting them over and over again!

So it looks like a popup sends them to the App Store and somehow they are charged immediately. As in $99, and it can't be cancelled. I think that's not possible on the App Store itself but it can happen on dodgy websites.

Theres a dozen or so 1 start reviews from real people and then lots of 5 stars from obvious fakes. Apple really needs to up their game on fakes. At the very least make it a banning offence. 

Here it is:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/privacy-assistant-stringvpn/id1555252831#see-all/reviews

larryjw said:

launfall said:

Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!

Just the opposite. The ability of scam apps will reinforce the Walled Garden approach and the importance of Apple putting more resources into Walling-up the App Store -- which costs money.

It even suggests that Apple shouldn't be giving away the App Store for free to developers. It makes no sense for developers to be in business if they don't make any money from their efforts -- that's not a business. If you're not making money by selling to your customer, and you're in business, you must be making money some other way -- selling the customer, scamming the customer? 

Nothing from Apple is free, the developers who are giving away their apps for free are at least paying $99 a year.  Thats fairly expensive for just hosting data. Theres a bit more, but not much. 

Plenty of companies will create free apps for their customers as a convince or a website replacement. My bank doesn't charge for its app, and the app is definitely a cost to it, but it adds plenty of convenience for their customers. Some apps are from bedroom developers. 

Its pretty bad that this company didn't every have a website, though. 

This kind of made me feel I should get into the VPN business. 

I download and pay for a lot of apps. Mostly they work and sometimes they don't so I get the money back if I have paid. I don't see why the users of String VPN could not do that. I mean $1M a month?