{"id":11754,"date":"2014-09-14T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2014-09-14T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:46:00","slug":"junk-in-the-itunes-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/09\/14\/junk-in-the-itunes-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk in the iTunes App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 9, 2014 Apple announced that there are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2014\/09\/09Apple-Announces-iPhone-6-iPhone-6-Plus-The-Biggest-Advancements-in-iPhone-History.html\" target=\"_blank\">1.3 million apps in the App Store<\/a>. Pretty sure the 1.3 million\u00a0figure include the junk in the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>I was re-downoading XCOM: Enemy Unknown on my iPad, and I saw an app titled:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GamePRO &#8211; X-COM Enemy Within Edition<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14531\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0700.png\" alt=\"XCOM in the App Store\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a hunch, so I checked out this &#8220;GamePRO &#8211; X-COM Enemy Within Edition&#8221; app. My hunch was right; this is a junk app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14532\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0701.png\" alt=\"IMG_0701\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reviews shows that this app is completely misleading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14533\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0702.png\" alt=\"IMG_0702\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;developer&#8221; seems to have a lot of apps published in the App Store. All of them are complete junk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14534\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Junk-in-the-App-Store-Michelle-Bernardo.jpg\" alt=\"Junk in the App Store Michelle Bernardo\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1050\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Info on they &#8220;developer&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michelle Bernardo<br \/>\nIngeniusGames.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14535\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Junk-App-Michelle-Bernardo-IngeniusGames_com.jpg\" alt=\"Junk App Michelle Bernardo IngeniusGames_com\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what IngeniusGames.com look like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14536\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IngeniusGames_com.jpg\" alt=\"IngeniusGames_com\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a WordPress site with sample contents from the theme. I wonder how Apple\u00a0App\u00a0Store Team\u00a0approved any\u00a0apps from this so called developer?<\/p>\n<p>If you see this kind of misleading, scummy junk apps,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getsupport.apple.com\/ContactInfo.action\" target=\"_blank\">please report it to Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 9, 2014 Apple announced that there are\u00a01.3 million apps in the App Store. Pretty sure the 1.3 million\u00a0figure include the junk in the App Store. I was re-downoading XCOM: Enemy Unknown on my iPad, and I saw an app titled: GamePRO &#8211; X-COM Enemy Within Edition I had a hunch, so I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/09\/14\/junk-in-the-itunes-app-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Junk in the iTunes App Store&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[380,381,1194,933,1587,1594,1676,1753,2619,936],"class_list":["post-11754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-fraud","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-itunes-store","tag-junk","tag-scam","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-33A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}