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Yeah, reading this my reaction is “so why didn’t they do it?”. A less prominent app would have been fulled first and notified later.

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Apple doesn't provide any enforcement for apps that are in the top percentile.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/how-the-rewards-app-freeca...

You'd think Apple would go after the top-charting apps that are leveraging the scam companies (like Monopoly Go and Disney Solitaire) for actively engaging with scams like this to pump their own numbers up...

(https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeCash/comments/1i4132r/monopoly_... - like this. What the everloving hell? Straight up enticing users to shove themselves into a game, expose themselves to ads galore, and then keep goading them into blowing even more money in the partner app under the guise of 'real cash'.)

It has a massive user base. And political connections. And lawsuit money. Apple (and Google) will absolutely treat these publishers differently than a random app developer.

Because it makes Android a more attractive option than it otherwise would have been.

Maybe—I don't think anyone is choosing between the two based on access to grok of all things. I think it's simply treated as an extension of twitter, which will almost certainly never be forced out while it remains the premier app for diplomacy and AI porn.

That argument didn't stop them from pulling Fortnite in its hay day though.

Yeah, Apple doesn't care about losing money or pissing off a large user-base. They assume they have enough money and they'll always have the larger user-base.

They care about people pissing in their ocean.

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