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One developer has said (below) this didn’t seem to be the case for him, so it’s possible the original tweet poster was confused.

I have heard this rumour before and it does sound like Apple deserve the right to do this, so perhaps it varies on a case by case or region by region basis? But seems to be hard to find concrete information either way strangely!

Here's a second source: https://techcrunch.com/2009/03/25/apples-iphone-app-refund-p...

That article is also talking about what apple COULD do - it doesn't say apple is actually doing it.

I have requested several refunds by reporting a problem saying that the app didn’t work the way I thought it would. Automatically approved and refunded.

Takes like 10 seconds.