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13 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If the App Store can't even protect you from getting scammed with MEDICAL APPS, then what's even the point? This is just an astounding level of negligence paired with Apple's seal of approval resulting in a multi-million dollar scam that's been going for a long time. YIKES.
Meanwhile, Apple continues to claim that unless they prevent apps like @heyhey or @fortnite from processing their own payments, then the integrity and trust in the App Store is in jeopardy. Lol.
Here's another example. Total scam copy app of the Roku Remote app (the official one is FREE!) that charges people $4.99 PER WEEK?? Stacked with fake reviews. Write-up on Forbes platform. Still chugging along. forbes.com/sites/robpegor…
Starting to think Apple's claims that the safety of the App Store is at stake if they allow companies like Basecamp and Epic to process payments is just projection. Apple must know that the App Store is riddled with scams. Instead of doing something, they're shaking makers down.

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13 Apr
The echoes of the Shaun King scandal reverberate. But now it's with the enforcement of Twitter to keep questions of charity accounting suppressed. Just bananas. msn.com/en-us/news/us/…
If you're running a non-profit that has raised $90m without transparent accounting for how the funds are dispensed, yeah, it's probably going to raise questions if purchase home after home. It was the same shit, at smaller scale, with Shaun King. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
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But can’t put all this at the feet of American practices. Nemlig relies on the inhuman Danish immigration laws to intimidate and subdue immigrant workers who fear deportation if they’re fired. Total hellscape of a combination. Corporation exploitation based on state enforcement.
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8 Apr
This thread explains so much. Why the App Store is full of scams, why rulings are so arbitrary, why its impossible to get clear answers. Apple hires essentially unskilled people to do the reviews, yet claims they're necessary to protect people. You can't have it both ways!
Apple is at once both overselling the benefits of the App Store reviews (we'll protect you! we're sophisticated!) and underdelivering massively (store is full of obvious scams). Only area where the review process actually works is in collecting fees. Disgraceful process.
Apple's App Store review process is a tollbooth wrapped in security theater. It really makes so many things fall into place after all these years when you think of it like that. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK! This isn't a ninja crack team spending serious time doing reviews.
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The authoritarian hippie parent who finds their true calling in keeping the kids away from sugar, video games, tiktok, or whatever will not be raising the free-range, independent, self-regulating adults they imagine.
The alternative to this is not a diet of fast food, every social media before the age of 10, or video games rated R before puberty. By all means, put out healthy, wholesome options and alternatives. Just chill when the kids inevitably feel like diverging.
Bodily experiences cannot be conveyed by admonishment. Let the kid binge that candy bag until they’re sick. Let their eyes grow square after a day of 12 hours in Roblox. This is how they learn their own limits and develop an intrinsic appreciation for “enough”.
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Big showdown in Arizona today! Senate will vote on the app store bill already passed by the house. Giving app makers the right to process payments without the exorbitant 30% cut, and with protection from retaliation. Make apps? Register your interest. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Just prepared a tight two minutes of arguments because of course I'll be testifying on behalf of developers again 😄. But also because this bill is directly impacting where Basecamp goes next for its physical location. HELLO ARIZONA if this passes and we can make the move!
I thought about weaving in some Eminem lyrics about that one shot and mom's spaghetti, but gotta know your audience, so I'll just be humming it my head as I spit out my lines 😂
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