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afavour 2 days ago

Yeah, reading this my reaction is “so why didn’t they do it?”. A less prominent app would have been fulled first and notified later.

deepfriedbits 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It has a massive user base. And political connections. And lawsuit money. Apple (and Google) will absolutely treat these publishers differently than a random app developer.

kotaKat a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple doesn't provide any enforcement for apps that are in the top percentile.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/how-the-rewards-app-freeca...

You'd think Apple would go after the top-charting apps that are leveraging the scam companies (like Monopoly Go and Disney Solitaire) for actively engaging with scams like this to pump their own numbers up...

(https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeCash/comments/1i4132r/monopoly_... - like this. What the everloving hell? Straight up enticing users to shove themselves into a game, expose themselves to ads galore, and then keep goading them into blowing even more money in the partner app under the guise of 'real cash'.)

polski-g 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because it makes Android a more attractive option than it otherwise would have been.

throwaway27448 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe—I don't think anyone is choosing between the two based on access to grok of all things. I think it's simply treated as an extension of twitter, which will almost certainly never be forced out while it remains the premier app for diplomacy and AI porn.

nozzlegear a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That argument didn't stop them from pulling Fortnite in its hay day though.

etchalon a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, Apple doesn't care about losing money or pissing off a large user-base. They assume they have enough money and they'll always have the larger user-base.

They care about people pissing in their ocean.