What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?
What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?
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I recently tried out an "LED banner" (called LED scroller in the google play store) app that lets you scroll text on your screen. Pretty cool, I would totally pay $5 or maybe even $10 for it. In the free version, I don't think I've ever seen that many ads in such a short period of time. The paid version was $15 PER WEEK. That's $780 per year. To scroll some text. It's the only app I've ever bothered to post a review for.
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Sounds like a front for either blatant adware or malware with botted reviews/downloads to bring it to the top in search results. I can't image there isn't a free app that does this.
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Could it be money laundering?
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It's just fishing. For every 10 users that notice the deceptive "free trial then bills per week" model, there's a guy who doesn't notice until he's been charged $15 and cancels. And for every ten of that guy, there's a guy that doesn't notice for a month, and for every ten of that guy there's the rare whale who looks at their $700/mo "google bill" and goes yeah that sounds about right.
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It’s just a rip off scam.
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I remember writing one of those using a bitmap font from some Arduino LCD driver program and publishing it for free on the Android store. Someone offered £50 for the source code and I wonder if they're related.
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