We’ve been hearing about how strict Apple policies are when it comes to letting applications on board its App Store – though this insight on Whack ‘em All changes our stance on that. It so happened that the apps’ developer: James Bossert discovered last week that his game had 400 new users in one day. He got excited and investigated, where he found that only 12 of those users had actually paid (99 cents) for the app on the App Store.
Bossert then emailed the guy who cracked and distributed the game around, known as ‘the pirate’ and ‘most_uniQue’ – who said:
As many iPhone and iPod touch owners have discovered, Apple’s iTunes App Store has many flaws which render it useless to the common user.
Apple has chosen to allow a multitude of ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications through its ‘strict’ screening process, nearly all written by mediocre programmers with a dream of getting rich quick. Many of these programmers game the reviews system, misrepresent their application in the description, and generally try to swindle the honest buyer.
Most_uniQue also stated that he used a software known as Crackulous (by Hackulous) to crack the app.
