For distributing applications to App Storu has very strict rules for developers, especially when compared to competing stores. Google Play from Android. However, these conditions will only protect users from dangerous applications that canonetrust their data (and wallet too). Unfortunately, to achieve 100% protection is currently almost impossible, and even now we are able to find applications that can "grease" their pockets nicely on consumers. The main problem lies in a certain form of subscription, where the user is regularly charged a monthly fee. There would be nothing wrong with that, however, if some developers did not abuse the subscription and did not insert it into their applications de facto secretly. However, according to new reports, they are trying Apple intensively eradicate.
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Some of the most problematic applications include QR Code Reader and Weather. Alarms. These applications can explain the whole issue perfectly. QR Code Reader earned almost 12 million crowns per year for the service it provides Apple through the built-in Camera app for free. The app earned around CZK 3500 per year from one user, unless they noticed that it was charging them for a subscription. QR Code Reader also had a trial version, but after just three days it switched to subscription mode, which the user unknowingly agreed to when initially launching it and confirming a bunch of classic questions. The Weather app also worked on a similar concept Alarms, which earned approximately 2,2 million crowns annually, while charging the user around 450 CZK per month of use.
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When downloading unknown applications, it is always worth reading their documentation, or at least user feedback. In the worst case, you also need to know how to cancel the subscription. The whole process is extremely simple and can be achieved in 5 steps. First of all, open it Settings, go to category here iTunes and App Store, now select Apple ID, select an option See more Apple ID and if you have an active subscription, follow your steps to the category Subscription.
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Of course, he also benefits from the whole case Apple, unfortunately contrary to the original ideas of the concept App Store. Steve Jobs' original idea was for users to leave App Store with quality software and carefree satisfaction. It is certainly better to use the built-in applications from Applu, which work reliably and, most importantly, are free.
I don't understand how someone can have an account set up in this day and age so that it doesn't automatically notify them of every payment. Hold, stupidity of the people themselves.
Of course, I am not saying that this fraud is okay.
The question is, is it really a scam if the user agrees to it and should he be informed of that fact?
*holt
That doesn't mean the app is a scam. This is user stupidity, just like today's malware. Viruses do not exist on today's systems, there are only programs that the user runs consciously. He is alerted to it, but he simply clicks it off to have peace of mind. and that's what you pay for
Thank you for this guide, articles like this are needed. Not everyone has time to go through different settings and may not even know it's possible.
I agree, and I personally approve of all applications from subscriptions or rentals. Developers shouldoneHe begins to remember.
The whole concept of "pre-planning" is from Applu shit. If he wanted, he could have charged for feature updates, and he did. But subscriptions just suck money out of people, and considering that most users are BFU, I'm not surprised that they don't even notice that it's a rip-off. It's just a piece of shit in the very concept.
Just remember where the subscription information is hidden, most BFUs don't have it.ancfind out and cancel it.
Just like that, when we all pay for their subscriptions, I'll stop doing it.
Let's boycott all subscriptions and rental applications, YOU can join too!
Ban adobe!!!!!
The subscription model, in my opinion, can ultimately demotivate developers, simply write appku, he lets them pay and doesn't care. If updates were charged, there would be more motivation to continue working on it, improve it, etc. Personally, I ignore subscription apps. And it would also be good not to label subscription apps as "in-app purchases" but somehow more clearly.
Adam – the exact opposite is true. That is why AppStore full of abandoned apps. Maintaining an app is work that the developer wants to get paid for. When someone pays you, you want to please them and work on the app. You don't want them to cancel their subscription.
Plus, a few dollars once a year is actually a paid update.
Frog – it depends on the person. Someone takes care of their work even when minismall income while someone doesn't care about it even if they get decent money for it. Anyway, I think that subscriptions to classic applications are crap. If anything, I would be in favor of paid updates, but it would have to be clearly stated before downloading the update - not after the update when there is no way back.
Exactly. I remember that in iOS 3 there were no purchases in app. And that was the best. Sometime later they were added as an option iOS and it was already worse for users. Until then, you didn't have to worry about updating the application. It was either free or purchased once and for all and developers couldn't make any changes. And subscriptions in app allow even larger castings. But Apple It makes a profit from this, so it supports developers who create subscriptions. I will give one example, but there are several. The developer got paid for an app, but instead of taking care of it as promised, he creates another app (or makes an update) with new purchases or subscriptions in app and the original one nestoh, so it will stop working with some other new one iOSOr they no longer address bug fixes and improvements in the original application after they took the money – they want new ones even from those who paid. The transition is limited iOS 10 to iOS 11 caused incompatibility of old applications.
Anyway, I know from my own experience that this subscription payment can be claimed and Apple They will return it to you without any problems. For me it was a little over 5.000 CZK. I unknowingly agreed to it, but I found out immediately after the notification that this amount was leaving my account.
There wasn't even the slightest problem with the claim and the pensions came right back.
Interestingly. I looked at QRScaner and it doesn't match the article.
– the application has a rating of 4.7 out of 45 K ratings.
– also works for free.
– it cannot be switched to PRO mode unknowingly. This is total nonsense.
– the application provides many more functions than just a QR scan (scans web addresses, phone numbers, business cards, sudoku ……), generates QR codes
– The PRO version is available for CZK 79 per month
In my opinion, this is a top app. Of course, I don't know if it was different before, but now it's the case that for 79 CZK it's cheap.
Just to add, app approval with a subscription is significantly more complicated than without it.