<story><title>How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/11/25/how-to-make-80000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alecthomas</author><text>I just did a quick search for &amp;quot;Virus Scanner&amp;quot; and this was in the first 10 results:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.apple.com&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;phone-protection&amp;#x2F;id1282949977&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.apple.com&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;phone-protection&amp;#x2F;id1282949977&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pretty clearly fake reviews, what it provides seems like a complete scam, in app subscriptions - ticks all the boxes from that article!&lt;p&gt;Four years on and it&amp;#x27;s still happening. Pretty incredible. Apple largely justifies its 30% cut as providing a curated experience, which is hard to reconcile with this reality.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/11/25/how-to-make-80000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>librish</author><text>This seems like a really big counterpoint to the corner stone of Apple&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;30% is reasonable&amp;quot; take - that the App Store is a safe and curated experience.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing for a one off app to slip through, but to have it make its way to the top charts with so many positive reviews is a really, really bad look.</text></comment>