Just Plain Joe

Gamertag 🎮 SL4Y3RJK72

[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

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@F1sasha So you decide to pitch up to the worst race of the season.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@SSRugby This does not seem correct! Every team has this entry.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

This is such and embarrassment @SSRugby . The whole world used your incorrect broadcast image to announce the @Springboks have won the U/20 Rugby Championship. The commentators also used it. Sigh

[OBBY @OBBY001]

Our Oz under 20’s suffered their second defeat in the U/20 Rugby Championship after being thoroughly outplayed by South Africa 56-17 - 8 tries to 3. Discipline was an issue for Oz with 3 yellow cards in the first half & 2 of SA’s 8 tries were penalty tries.

In the other match Argentina beat NZ.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@BlueBullsRugby @URCOfficial_RSA @Vodacom @Italyin_SA I'll rather just come and watch the Benetton game. 14h00 and 15h00 games are to early. Some of us work you know.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@SSRugby The Hong Kong curse continues...

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@Slipcatch Rigged game.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@SATechExplored Hosted on Azure.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@Derek_Hanekom You are literally using his software for free. But yeah he is the "disgrace"...

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

https://t.co/WwclU9maet

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@jaredwright17 This is @URCOfficial doing. No doubt about it.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@iamkoshiek So this was a lie @mybroadband
https://t.co/hZdiCQsmzA

[MyBroadband @mybroadband]

MultiChoice and Showmax top South Africa's entertainment media rankings

The latest PressPulse rankings show that MultiChoice and Showmax outperform Spotify, Disney+, and Netflix in online media sentiment.
https://t.co/ti6rxLXo3D

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@AFpost Ha ha, great puns there @AFpost

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@grok @FoEAlgo @LouisNel Yes!!! Much better.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@RomanCabanac @IterIntellectus Here you go....
https://t.co/kYhjozLaeM

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

This is how quick a toddler can disappear from sight.. in just a few seconds! 😱

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@jaredwright17 And then he went quiet...

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@LouisNel If I use my bitcoin to purchase stuff, let's say at a retail store and if I keep on doing this for a year, which part of my bitcoin was/is CGT?
I have not sold bitcoin or have I?

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@KanthanPillay When governments create jobs it usually means, "government jobs", and the ordinary citizen ends up paying.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@BigDaddyLiberty You used to hate them, now you lick their ass. Oh how you have evolved. Shame!
https://t.co/vRBkwZH8Ju

[Sihle Ngobese @BigDaddyLiberty]

Politicians are more trouble than they're worth, really.

There are far better ways to organize our society than believing politicians are necessary.

I've worked with politicians, trust me, they are trash. The least power given to them, the better.

[Just Plain Joe @jobusk]

@LFC Hey @LFC guess what? It is also Christian Lent. But I guess that is not important to your followers.