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by Manjuuu 1316 days ago
That minuscule subset is well designed, yes, the rest decent BUT some of them with in my opinion predatory pricing in many cases, $9/wk to download some wallpaper or some sleep noises app. But yes, they are not the only ones doing it. If you are interested search on the appstore among the boatload of apps they have.
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Okay well you should be able to link to a single one then.. I still can't find any examples of how this company is fraudulent.
search “wallpapers” in the app store and try the top results: 1. 188k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 2. 120k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 3. 243k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpapers-widgets-myscreen/id...

Tricking users into these high priced subscriptions is a tried and true strategy in the app store. The press caught on late (2018) but it was happening from the moment apple opened up subscriptions to all developers in June 2016. Started with crappy coloring book apps and then spread like wildfire from there. Bending Spoons is simply the evolution of that.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-p...

I wouldn't say "fraudolent", no laws are being broken here. And I'm not trying to be snarky with this, but I'm not doing your research for you on a well known issue of the App Store. I'm ok if you keep being not aware of it.

This specific company has a decade long history of being in the grey zone in regard to App Store rules. Like many others, yes, but let's not normalize it.