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This developer is flooding your appstore with 1,000 new apps per week

21 pointsby whattsabout 11 years ago
Developed by a german company called Tobit.Software [1], &quot;chayns&quot; has produced more than 10,000 apps to date [2], all flooding the popular app stores [3].<p>&quot;chayns&quot; turns Facebook pages into mobile apps for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry, automatically, trying to make your profession as a developer obsolete.<p>On Android alone, the company uses more than 30 developer accounts to push 10,000 apps per week to Google Play [4].<p>Is this compliant with Google&#x27;s policies? No [5]. Does Google care? It doesn&#x27;t seem so.<p>Today, Google updated its policies for developers, but are they credible at all? &quot;chayns&quot; did also violate against the old version of the Content Policy.<p>&quot;chayns&quot;, in the meanwhile, is filling entire cinema halls with aspiring new developers that are going to spam your app store as well [6].<p>[1] &lt;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;new.tobit.com&#x2F;&gt; (German) [2] &lt;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iphone-ticker.de&#x2F;spam-tobit-software-baut-apps-aus-10-000-facebook-seiten-57671&#x2F;&gt; (German) [3] &lt;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tobit.com&#x2F;chayns?lang=eng_us&gt; [4] &lt;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;developer?id=Tobit.Software&gt; up to &lt;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;developer?id=Tobit.Software+GER31&gt; [5] &lt;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;developer-content-policy.html&gt; (&quot;Spam&quot; section) [6] &lt;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.vogel.de&#x2F;vogelonline&#x2F;bdb&#x2F;698700&#x2F;698727&#x2F;4.jpg&gt;

3 comments

jaredsohnabout 11 years ago
I don&#x27;t think the motive is &quot;trying to make your profession as a developer obsolete&quot; or that these actions are effective in doing so.
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AbhishekBiswalabout 11 years ago
This reminds me of the developer who made over 47,000 Blackberry apps.<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/one-developer-makes-over-47000-of-blackberry-10s-120000-apps/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;one-developer-makes-o...</a>
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dholowiskiabout 11 years ago
I have an appstore?
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