[ezy]

The elephant in the room is that Apple must already know this is happening. It's not like they need a viral blog article or a user flag uprising to tell them this -- It's been obvious to most technologically saavy users who own iphones -- and it must be 10x as obvious to someone who works at Apple on the actual App Store . They're just choosing to do nothing about it because it's advantageous to them. Period. But what else is new when large sums of money are involved...

[raman162]

Yes but what pushes the knife further into the gut is how apple claims it has a strict app review process to protect iOS users when they have obviously done a poor job here. They were quick to catch epic games bypassing their payment system but can't catch a very obvious scam that made it to their top 10 grossing app list.

[civilized]

Isn't that how Apple justifies their ridiculous 30% cut? The herculean effort they make to keep the app store safe?

Turns out they just give scammers a platform to defraud the vulnerable at scale.

[the_only_law]

Ofc stuff like this is allowed but when I have a clever idea for a useful app its painfully made clear that it would never get passed the guidelines.