Read more.Deceiving app targets iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch jailbreakers.
Read more.Deceiving app targets iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch jailbreakers.
Clever sods! lol
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Apple really need to start being more responsible about allowing these kind of apps into the App Store. They're clearly designed to mislead people into forking out wasted money, which irritates me personally as a legitimate, hard working software developer.
I saw an app on the App Store a couple of weeks ago claiming to add the Android lock screen to your iPhone, and sure enough - it did... as a static wallpaper, apparently. Last time I checked, it's still selling well - despite having thousands of bitter reviews.
Well Apple's claims to curate the store are clearly bollocks! Not really any better than the Android store which makes no such claim...
Sucks to be the first. Could've been avoided if Apple had Android's uninstall in first 15 mins for full refund procedure.
However there's no excuse really for not having a quick glance at the app's rating/comments, especially if you're going to spend £7 on it - I really have no sympathy for people burned when a glance at the app's rating shows 1 or 2 stars, and a quick glance at the comments would reveal it to be something else.
I saw that fake lockscreen app too - spent a thoroughly enjoyable half hour reading through all the reviews and laughing at the endless stupidity on display. The description was misleading on that one, but if read closely it did explain what the app actually did, so you could make a case (albeit a tenuous one) for that one staying on the app store.
If this app really doesn't even tell you what it does though, that is absolutely shocking - and completely blows apart the whole 'curated ecosystem' argument the Apple are so proud of.
"I want to be young and wild, then I want to be middle aged and rich, then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf..."
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There's no doubt that it takes a certain amount of stupidity to buy something before reading the description closely, but I think it's fair to say that the average end user isn't knowledgeable enough to doubt the App in the first place and think "Hmm, the Android lock on an iPhone? Where's the catch?".
At that point, it should definitely be Apple's responsibility (and is in their best interests) to make sure their [gullible] customers don't shell out money for Apps that don't do what they suggest they do.
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