Oskar Larsson

digital colorist living and working in stockholm, sweden

[Craig Raw 🐦 @craigraw]

My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity".

Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.

The context: since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on the App Store, as recently as April this year. Users have contacted me after losing their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators.

I'm the developer of the real Sparrow Wallet, a desktop app, and I hold the registered US trademarks for the name and logo. I have publicly warned @Apple and the community about these fake apps from early 2024, but they keep appearing.

The app @Apple flagged was a placeholder that was never published. Its only purpose was to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and that other "Sparrow" apps aren't mine. This approach may have been misguided, but there was nothing dishonest about it.

I'm confident this is an automated misclassification that Apple would reverse on review - but I may be terminated before a human ever looks at my appeal. The cost would fall on @Apple's own users: blocked installs and no updates for a tool people rely on, which opens the door for more fakes.

If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport

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@trijo_se Hallå vart är ni?! Nytt avsnitt snart??

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@Uber_Support The ”request invoice” feature on Uber Eats Sweden is broken since weeks / months. Crucial for our company to continue ordering from you. Please investigate.

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@demirdjiantwins NANO

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@MayorKingAI Can you describe a bit more on how you got the consistent character? Amazing work!

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@klarnaseb Snälla, gör världen en tjänst och gör skillnad på Bitcoin och ”krypto”, ignorera alla shitcoins och acceptera endast Bitcoin.

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@elonmusk When Bitcoin Standard?

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@RuairiRobinson So this is purely text 2 video? How do you get constistent characters and environments without text2img first? Also, how the heck did you access to Veo? :)

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@saylor time to orange pill the White House my man, they’re getting lost in shitcoins

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@elonmusk Musk, Trump, Rogan, Bezos, Cook lived long enough to become the villains. Sad to see. I used to wear a SpaceX tshirt, now I would be ashamed to do so.

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@davidkurten She was the one who appeared violently xD

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@andrewjclare Horrible

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@MKBHD Ipad pro review when??

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@ShaykhSulaiman Dude gtfo

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@MichaelBensonn 8-4 in rounds to usyk , and one of them being a 10-8 round. Bullshit judges, something needs to change.

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@AIWarper @mohamed17381489 How do you use it for cleanup? :O

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@tim_cook New iPad Pro when? 🥲

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@ivanfioravanti Should be this , or PiP? 🙏🙏

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@ivanfioravanti Yes! I installed this one(image). I don’t know the difference between conda and pip, but I chose Conda!

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@c0nsumption_ @_ehlex Please !