Discussion

• @keleftheriou Kosta Eleftheriou on x

  This @AppStore app pretends to be a silly platformer game for children 4+, but if I set my VPN to Turkey and relaunch it becomes an online casino that doesn't even use Apple's IAP.

• @talkaboutdesign Maksim Petriv on x

  Apple Store is “a place you can trust” - Apple https://twitter.com/...

• @firt Maximiliano Firtman on x

  A native app for iOS that looks like a simple game, but if you are in some countries, it morphs into a casino app. It seems a web app within a webview; it doesn't need to be a native app. The scam is to make users trust it and use their credit cards because it's in the AppStore. …

• @s8mb Sam Bowman on x

  This is exactly what Epic's lawsuit would get us more of, no? https://twitter.com/...

• @i0n1c Stefan Esser on x

  Let's repeat the mantra: @AppStore is not for security it is for exercising control over the monopoly https://twitter.com/...

• @keleftheriou Kosta Eleftheriou on x

  I'm now being alerted it's not just Turkey. The app behaves like a casino in other countries too, like Italy and Kazakhstan. Presumably it's everywhere other than the US? https://twitter.com/...

• @nsexceptional Tanner B on x

  This is the craziest one yet lmao https://twitter.com/...

• @adora Lisa Brewster on x

  Other than user reports, how would you detect something like this? https://twitter.com/...

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  These threads never stop. The App Store already is a “flea market” https://twitter.com/...

• @stuntpants @stuntpants on x

  @reneritchie Apple: mostly incompetence. Google/YT: motivation inversion. No one gets promoted for reducing clicks and banning accounts. FB: these are their top engagements, and they are bad people who choose to harm society for money. Twitter: libertarian brain worms.

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  Yikes. This kinda stuff doesn't help Apple make the compelling case they think they're making... https://twitter.com/...

• @tolmasky Francisco Tolmasky on x

  This is why when the AppStore was first announced I thought the whole “no private APIs” thing was just a suggestion that no one would take seriously, just like on the Mac. It just seemed impossible to enforce (especially with ObjC). Just performSelector: after a certain date... h…

• @brentdirks Brent Dirks on x

  It's amazing that one man, @keleftheriou, continues to find these scams that Apple has been completely oblivious to. https://twitter.com/...

• @gartenberg Michael Gartenberg on x

  You just can't review millions of apps effectively. I think the App Store has just gone beyond any scale imagined and like the iTunes App of old needs to be rethought and reworked https://twitter.com/...

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  This is SO super ultra shady, and so smart to find it. Isn't it about time Apple started putting Kosta on some sort of incentive payment, like an App Store version of Pwn2own, for finding these things? Or... put anyone on it, like bug bounties? App bounties? https://twitter.com/.…