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'Fakespot' Removed From Apple's App Store After Complaint From Amazon [Updated]

smoking monkey said:
The simple answer to all this is stop buying crap we don't need. Instead buy local and support your local sellers. It may cost more up front, but if you spend less often and only buy what you really need, then the amount you spend won't be any different. Most people are unable to tell the difference between a want and a need unfortunately.I bet everybody could go through their place and find a trailer full of stuff they could dump immediately.
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This is so true.

I have a cousin who literally gets 1-3 boxes of "god knows what" from Amazon every. single. day.

Her garage is so stuffed with crap that no cars can park inside (3 car garage!)

I think it's a brain disorder of some kind honestly.
 
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I really think only reviews that are negative should be allowed. I almost never read positive reviews and go straight for the negatives. Companies would have no way to affect their reviews. Show the total number of units sold and the number of negative reviews. Whether the product is good or bad would be immediately obvious.
 
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Four things:
1). I don’t know how fake spot can accurately decide fake or not on a review.
2). They violated the rules. If they spent hours, etc…on this app development somebody dropped the ball and apple had every right to kick them out.
3). If Amazon pushed this hard to get rid of the app, makes you think maybe fake spot was on to something.
4). Yes, I realize I’m a tad hypocritical in this post. No need to point it out.
 
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Slow Programmer said:
I really think only reviews that are negative should be allowed. I almost never read positive reviews and go straight for the negatives. Companies would have no way to affect their reviews. Show the total number of units sold and the number of negative reviews. Whether the product is good or bad would be immediately obvious.
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So we just decide between multiple items by reading all the negative reviews and seeing which is "least bad"?

No offense, but that sounds frankly - awful and honestly a bit depressing.

Reviews pointing out happiness with something and/or positive attributes can point out things one hadn't thought of or highlight things a buyer might also appreciate.

Just getting rid of positive reviews is throwing out all the good with the bad.
 
smoking monkey said:
The simple answer to all this is stop buying crap we don't need. Instead buy local and support your local sellers. It may cost more up front, but if you spend less often and only buy what you really need, then the amount you spend won't be any different. Most people are unable to tell the difference between a want and a need unfortunately.I bet everybody could go through their place and find a trailer full of stuff they could dump immediately.
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What if you live in a place where you can't get a lot of stuff lcoally? Not all of us live in NY, Chicago or LA. The bottom line is, online is the only place you can get a lot of stuff.

And be careful when you criticize want vs need. A lot of people would argue you don't NEED that smartphone.
 
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the upcoming MacBook pros it is so hype that MR illustrate the post with render of new MBP, that it horrible... I know that the real MBP will be really beautiful, in opposition with this image...
 
turbineseaplane said:
I'm trying to think of some companies that helped make that the reality...

Let's see..
1. Wal-Mart
2. Hmm.... anyone have guesses?
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Well, of course Amazon is needed to replace the companies Amazon helped get rid of. Quite insidious. But that doesn't change the reality that's what happened.

Buth biggest problem with the brick and mortor stores that are left is that many of them won't carry large inventories of anyrhing but the most basic stuff, because of the costs of holding that stock, whereas Amazon doesn't worry about that. You can, literally, get almost anything.
 
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Rafterman said:
Well, of course Amazon is needed to replace the companies Amazon helped get rid of. Quite insidious. But that doesn't change the reality that's what happened.

Buth biggest problem with the brick and mortor stores that are left is that many of them won't carry large inventories of anyrhing but the most basic stuff, because of the costs of holding that stock, whereas Amazon doesn't worry about that. You can, literally, get almost anything.
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What a bummer 'eh?

I guess we are just screwed forever now.

Amazon and WalMart own us all
 
Rafterman said:
But biggest problem with the brick and mortar stores that are left is that many of them won't carry large inventories of anything but the most basic stuff, because of the costs of holding that stock, whereas Amazon doesn't worry about that. You can, literally, get almost anything.
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Exactly.

I'm in audio/video production. I buy tons of supply items from Amazon, plus all sorts of little connectors, cables, etc.

There couldn't be a local brick-n-mortar store that could have all of those items on a shelf... and also every other category of item.

The reason Amazon can have nearly every item imaginable is because of the warehouse/shipping model. They have acres of warehouse space all over the country... and items can be shipped to your house in 2 days, 1 day, or the same day.

I know people love to say "Amazon is killing local businesses"

Well that may be true for certain items.

But I wasn't buying XLR cables from any local store where I live in Mooresville, NC.

There is a Guitar Center in Charlotte about 45 minutes away. But they only have a couple brands. And their prices are ridiculous! Like you said... it's due to the fact that is costs so much for a store to hold all that stock.

So yeah... Amazon might be the devil... but I can stand the heat.

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I wish Apple would remove Amazon while they are at it. I’m tired of fake reviews for fake products sold by a billionaire who under pays his staff all while making the planet more polluted.
 
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Michael Scrip said:
Exactly.

I'm in audio/video production. I buy tons of supply items from Amazon, plus all sorts of little connectors, cables, etc.

There couldn't be a local brick-n-mortar store that could have all of those items on a shelf... and also every other category of item.

The reason Amazon can have nearly every item imaginable is because of the warehouse/shipping model. They have acres of warehouse space all over the country... and items can be shipped to your house in 2 days, 1 day, or the same day.

I know people love to say "Amazon is killing local businesses"

Well that may be true for certain items.

But I wasn't buying XLR cables from any local store where I live in Mooresville, NC.

There is a Guitar Center in Charlotte about 45 minutes away. But they only have a couple brands. And their prices are ridiculous! Like you said... it's due to the fact that is costs so much for a store to hold all that stock.

So yeah... Amazon might be the devil... but I can stand the heat.

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Yep, I know that problem. I was looking for a fairly common DSLR lens. Common for most areas at least. But in Buffalo NY, I had to order it. The only option, because the only real possibility for that kind of stuff, Best Buy, didn't carry it in store.
 
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AxiomaticRubric said:
The bigger question is: How did this app make it through Apple’s review process?
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It's unreasonable to expect 100.0% perfection 100.0% of the time when humans are involved.

Apple rejects around 35% of app submissions, amounting to 1.7 million rejected apps per year on average in recent years. In 2020 Apple rejected 40% of submitted apps.
 
Rafterman said:
Yep, I know that problem. I was looking for a fairly common DSLR lens. Common for most areas at least. But in Buffalo NY, I had to order it. The only option, because the only real possibility for that kind of stuff, Best Buy, didn't carry it in store.
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Yep!

Amazon and B&H Photo are where I go for big photography and electronics purchases.

You're right... even a big physical store like Best Buy can't possibly carry the amount of stock that an online warehouse/shipping company can carry.
 
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Michael Scrip said:
Yep!

Amazon and B&H Photo are where I go for big photography and electronics purchases.

You're right... even a big physical store like Best Buy can't possibly carry the amount of stock that a warehouse/shipping company can carry.
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I can't believe the stuff B&H has actually in stock, in store. That place is huge. The widest ranging and weirdest stuff ever under one roof. It's like Candyland for photographers.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
The problem is that Amazon seems to simply prefer making as much money as possible off anything and everything that sells on their site - real, fake, knockoff or otherwise.

It's fun to think about a more wholesome Amazon that actually cared about these issues, but they don't.

I personally know management at a prominent shoe company that had to finally stop selling on the site as they had no interest in dealing with the endless knockoffs -- even worse, the company was put in the position of honoring repair/replacement/CS situations with people who'd bought FAKES from Amazon.

Amazon doesn't care one iota about "creating trust"
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That’s the work of the government. I think it’s illegal to sell fake products in a shop, be it online or not. I don’t know about the law in the U.S. but if Amazon is selling so many fake products, the government will be rich just by fining them - if there is no such laws, the Congress should do something.

(Ahem well we all know that the Congress is more concerned about what’s happening outside of the USA then inside.)
 
Rafterman said:
I can't believe the stuff B&H has actually in stock, in store. That place is huge. The widest ranging and weirdest stuff ever under one roof. It's like Candyland for photographers.
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I went to NYC a couple years ago... and they were closed the only day I had available. Boo...

But I'll get there one day!

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Rafterman said:
What if you live in a place where you can't get a lot of stuff lcoally? Not all of us live in NY, Chicago or LA. The bottom line is, online is the only place you can get a lot of stuff.

And be careful when yuou criticize want vs need. A lot of people would argue you don't NEED that smartphone.
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You kinda missed the point.
 
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Apple_Robert said:
I am more tired of fake people creating fake reviews.
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Amazon reviews at one time was arguably the greatest consumer feedback mechanism in history. Unfortunately the reviews now are tainted. IMHO they are now unreliable thanks to fake people->fake review farming. It's probably worse than the numerous astroturfing trolls that populate popular Internet posting boards (but it is a close second).
 
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connormw said:
I mean let's be honest here, it's a pretty clear-cut violation of the rules. We all know the App Store rules can be ambiguous and loosely enforced, but this one seems pretty obvious:



The app put Amazon in a wrapper, injected code into the web viewer experience for the functionality, and then was on the App Store as a separate app. We all know if someone made an "Apple Shop Helper" app that showed, say, competing prices elsewhere, that Apple would shut it down in a heartbeat for displaying content from a 3rd party that did not consent to the integration.
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Great, so Apple should go ahead and remove Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers from the App Store as all three wrap websites and have the ability to inject JavaScript to steal user passwords.
 
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