Английская Википедия:AppGratis
AppGratis was an app-discovery application founded in 2008 by French engineer, Simon Dawlat.[1][2][3][4][5] AppGratis curators found and recommended apps, which the apps were then featured to download for free or at a reduced price.[6] In April 2013, AppGratis was removed from the Apple App Store for an alleged violation of App Store rules regarding third-party app promotion and marketing.[1][7] On February 15, 2017, AppGratis was shut down and discontinued.[8]
History
AppGratis started as a newsletter listing daily app deals from the App Store for Apple users in 2008.[2][6] The AppGratis mobile application was created in 2010 while still using the newsletter model.[2] A team of publishers pick and review the quality of potential apps that want to be featured on the application.[2][6] AppGratis was a bootstrapped company until January 2013, where AppGratis raised $13.5 million from Iris Capital and the Orange Publicis fund to expand the application on an international level.[2][9] In February 2013, AppGratis passed the 10 million-user mark.[10][11] Before its removal from the App Store, AppGratis had 12 million iOS users.[10] A month after its removal from the Apple App Store, AppGratis launched the Android version of the application on Google Play.[11][12][13] The Android version has obtained 1 million to 5 million downloads.[14] On February 15, 2017, AppGratis shut down its business with a post for their users entitled 'Bye AppGratis'.[8] In 2014, Simon Dawlat decided to shift to a new project, Batch.[15]
Controversy with Apple store
In November 2012, Apple approved the AppGratis iPhone application.[5] Days after receiving approval for the iPad application in 2013, Apple pulled the AppGratis application from the iOS App Store stating that the application violated clauses 2.25 and 5.6.[1][3][4][7][12][13] AppGratis was under investigation whether the application worked to inflate app rankings in the App Store charts.[5][16] The investigation of AppGratis incited French digital industry minister, Fleur Pellerin, to announce a call for closer regulation on the fairness and stability of digital distribution platforms.[16][17][18][19] AppGratis protested its ban with a user petition, which gained close to a million signatures by May 2013.[11][17][20]
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