[agallant]

It's perhaps worth steelmanning the argument here - though technically one can release an app for free, it is generally the case that any app with significant investment (warranting monetization) will take one of the two paths he described, and this describes the majority of popular apps.

[dotancohen]

This sentence:

  > but then it must contain built-in advertisements

Could just as easily have been:

  > but then it most likely contains built-in advertisements

In a technical article there may be many reasons for simplifying an explanation, but there is no excuse for lying.

[sideshowb]

I've lost battles with an editor (of a popular publication) that ultimately led to inaccuracies like this creeping in. They just cared about readability far more than truth.