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Zach

@zachshakked
12 posts
2022-01-14
This is absurd. 450 trials at 1am last night, now at 950 and getting a new ones every minute. 12K downloads, rank #28 word game, and #4 result for “wordle” in the App Store. We're going to the fucking moon. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Q&A with Wordle creator Josh Wardle on the game's origin story, reasons for keeping it simple, app clones, and handling the traffic from its newfound popularity

“People have an appetite for things that transparently don't want anything from you.”  —  The internet loves …

2022-01-13
Internets really a great place. I get I'm your punching bag for the day and what I did was completely wrong but please don't do this shit? https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

This is absurd. 450 trials at 1am last night, now at 950 and getting a new ones every minute. 12K downloads, rank #28 word game, and #4 result for “wordle” in the App Store. We're going to the fucking moon. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

Here were my calculations: a) Wordle is a ripoff of another game b) Wordle the word isn't trademarked and there's a bunch of other unrelated word apps named the same thing c) Wow, I'll hack together something on the weekend and see if I can make a buck
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

I'm literally giddy right now - that's 5.4k downloads in 1 FUCKING HOUR. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

@gruber @powerlanguish Ok one bad example but look up “sudoku” “crosswords” etc and wtf is your problem? I'm literally a self made 25 year old entrepreneur who made 1 bad decision. You don't know shit about me, go read my other tweets and look at my other apps. Great look for you John.
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

@gruber @powerlanguish Wordle is my eyes was on the way to becoming a generic name for a word game like scrabble, 2048, crossword, sudoku and the gray area from a common law trademark that had earlier use cases from other apps in my eyes was an opening and the legal advice I received ...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

2022-01-12
This is absurd. 450 trials at 1am last night, now at 950 and getting a new ones every minute. 12K downloads, rank #28 word game, and #4 result for “wordle” in the App Store. We're going to the fucking moon. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity

It seems Apple has taken action  —  Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?

I'm literally giddy right now - that's 5.4k downloads in 1 FUCKING HOUR. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity

It seems Apple has taken action  —  Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?

Internets really a great place. I get I'm your punching bag for the day and what I did was completely wrong but please don't do this shit? https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity

It seems Apple has taken action  —  Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?

2021-10-08
Competition is great - aint it? Adding the PayPal gateway (in addition to Apple Pay + credit cards) is HUGE. From what I've heard, companies that offer PayPal see a large % of their revenue come from it. https://www.macrumors.com/...
2021-10-08 View on X
MacRumors

Payments company Paddle announces an alternative in-app payments system for iOS, charging 5%-10% fees and launching December 7, following Epic v. Apple ruling

which makes it not “in-app” but more like how we've been doing it on the web for the past 20 yrs 😉 Fees: 10% or 5% + $0.50 https://twitter.com/... Elena / @virtualelena : $689m is ...

2021-05-02
I think one thing Apple underrates - all the big companies driving App Store revenue can afford to build web checkout flows. People run app ads because they work. If they stop working b/c of tracking - spend will shift to web-based checkout. All the big players do this already.
2021-05-02 View on X
Financial Times

By limiting iOS apps' ad tracking capabilities, Apple could see increased commissions from IAPs and subscriptions if developers start charging for apps

as every company involved in advertising will be forced to learn the new rules https://www.ft.com/... Neil Shah / @neiltwitz : Great reporting! Software has been eating the world b...