💰 How to make $13,000,000 on the App Store:
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1. Make a basic app people might be searching for, eg “Volume Booster”:
2. Charge an absurd $10/week (~$520/year) auto-renewing subscription that’s easy to sign up for, but much harder to cancel:
3. Buy lots of fake reviews on a daily basis (notice the pattern of all these non-sensical reviewer “names”):
4. Profit!
Your app becomes the #135 highest-grossing app on the App Store, bringing in over $13 million since 2018:
By accumulating 10,000s of fake reviews over the years, you successfully drown out the real ones:
“I have a side business that specializes in fake reviews, so I know fake reviews when I see them”
“Just look at the names of the people leaving all the 5 star reviews and you’ll see what I mean”
“OBVIOUSLY FAKE REVIEWS!!!”
“90 percent of the 5 star reviews are fake”
“cheating the AppStore and creating fake 5-star reviews”
“subverts the entire purpose of reviews”, “should be removed from the App Store”
If you’re worried about Apple taking action, worry not - they're also making millions off your app, and they’re happy to keep featuring it on the App Store, time and again:
Meanwhile, Apple claims:
“The apps you love. From a place you can trust.”
“Every day, moderators review worldwide App Store chars for quality and accuracy.”
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Also see: theverge.com/2021/4/21/2238…
Revenue estimates and ranking data are from @appfigures ❤️
Link to the app on the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id986905979
Notice how this exact same group of reviewers has also left glowing 5-star reviews in a different, unrelated app - and all on the same day.
The problem is widespread.
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