If you hit a wall with the reviewing process all your iOS/WatchOS code now becomes worthless. It doesn't matter how much dev time you're invested into the project.
There's also a lot of interpretation involved. An app might pass the review and another very similar one might not.
See this comment for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24333426
Obviously Jpseph Rader is a subsidiary of Mediatonic, not some random guy flagrantly stealing Mediatonic's IP!
#7 in trivia (#8 when I looked on my iPad). 4.3k stars with an average rating of 4/5 with the first release 13 days ago. My very rough estimate (by scrolling) is about 60 reviews, mostly 1 star. Some of the reviews are... something.
> #WorstGameEverBigRipoff, T E R R I B L E GAME, 5 stars
Haha.
That game sums up my impression of the app store perfectly. It's a bunch of bad actors buying ratings and lying and cheating to get to the top of the charts where they can exploit addictive behavior to extract money from vulnerable people and children.
I see tons of garbage like that on the app store. It's easy to see too. Play some kids games and click the ads for other games. It trash, trash, trash, and more trash.
So far we know Facebook recognized it as fraud and referred to it as fraud internally so it's a bit hard to believe it is innocently occurring again and again wherever platforms permit games to bill unlimited amounts and players to perform unlimited transactions and developers to obfuscate transactions with layers of cash substitutes like gems and virtual currencies.
Apple: https://money.cnn.com/2014/01/15/technology/apple-ftc-settle...
Amazon: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ftc-sues-amazon-app-pur...
Facebook: https://phys.org/news/2016-07-facebook-refunds-in-app-minors...
Google: https://lifehacker.com/get-a-refund-for-your-kids-unauthoriz...
Microsoft: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/child-spe...