How To Make $80,000 Per Month On The Apple App Store
I scrolled down the list in the Productivity category and saw apps from well-known companies like Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft. That was to be expected. 10 Top Grossing Productivity app (as of June 7th, 2017) was an app called “Mobile protection :Clean & Security VPN”. Given the terrible title of this app (inconsistent capitalization, misplaced colon, and grammatically nonsensical “Clean & Security VPN,”), I was sure this was a bug in the rankings algorithm.
That couldn’t possibly be right. Now I was really curious. I tap into the app details to see that the developer is “Ngan Vo Thi Thuy”. Wait so, this is a VPN service offered by an independent developer who didn’t even bother to incorporate a company, That’s a huge red flag.
For those of you who don’t know why this is bad, a VPN basically routes all your internet traffic through a third party server. So in this case, a random person who couldn’t piece together a grammatically correct title, who also didn’t bother to incorporate a company, wants access to all your internet traffic. According to this, “Mobile protection :Clean & Security VPN” is “Full of features” — well, it’s certainly full of something.
Apparently, “Mobile protection” includes protecting you from “dupplicate” contacts. And these “scans” are what the screenshots claim as “Quick & Full Scan Internet Security”. Five internets to anyone who can figure out the relationship between Internet Security and duplicate contacts. All these red flags — and I haven’t even downloaded the app yet. Seeing the dates on these reviews brought up another question. How long has this app been up, Well, according to Sensor Tower, “Mobile protection :Clean & Security VPN” has been a top 20 grossing Productivity app since at least April 20th (almost 2 months now).
Out of curiosity about this supposedly top grossing app, I download it. Yes, “This app need to cccess to your Contact to scan your Contact first.” The only option here is to tap Agree, and then iOS asks me if I want to give this app “cccess” to my contacts. Uhm, no thank you, After skipping that, the app tells me my device is at risk. Of course it is.
It‘s also ready to “Device Analyze”, Quick and Full Scan, and secure my internet (I can’t wait!). Tapping “Device Analyze” shows my iPhone’s free memory and storage — a useless and irrelevant feature. “Your contact is cleaned. Oh good — no duplicates, except for the extra “p” in “dupplicated”, I guess, Okay, so let me finally secure my internet by tapping “Secure Internet”.
Up comes this incredibly generous offer to play a bubble shooter game without installing! Not sure what I did to deserve this amazing free gift, but it will have to wait. I tap the “X” to return to securing my internet. And obviously, I jump at the opportunity to “Instantly use full of smart anti-virus” by tapping “FREE TRIAL”.
It’s free, after all. “Full Virus, Malware scanner”: What, 400 A MONTH subscription to reroute all my internet traffic to a scammer, I guess I was lucky I actually read the entire fine print. But what about other people, 288,000 — from just this one app. At this point, you might still be in disbelief. Maybe you wouldn’t download it.
700 billion dollars today. 144 in most downloaded free productivity apps in the App Store, with an estimated 50,000 downloads in April. To get 200 subscribers from 50,000 downloads, they just need to convert 0.4% to purchases — or maybe even fewer, because these subscriptions are automatically renewing, so the subscribers stack month over month. Can you really not imagine one of your tech-illiterate relatives accidentally (or even intentionally) subscribing to this “free trial” to protect their iPad from viruses, But how did this app get 50,000 downloads in the first place,
