<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>&amp;gt; $3.99&amp;#x2F;week subscription is deliberately predatory. It tries to bait people in thinking &amp;quot;oh it&amp;#x27;s just $3.99&amp;quot;, and then forgetting and now paying $17&amp;#x2F;month for a photo collage app.&lt;p&gt;How is that predatory? It makes perfect sense to me and I’d probably do it myself if I ever were to sell an app this way. If someone just installs my app once, to make a single video, then immediately cancels, I still want to make some money off that.&lt;p&gt;That’s probably how 90% of these apps are used.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never seen these apps before. I have no idea who this company is. But these icons, names, and type of apps I typically associate with trash behaviour I wish was removed from the app store. Like a Video Joiner Pro that lets you concat two videos, has a 1 week free trial and then $20&amp;#x2F;month subscription.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Ahh yup, that&amp;#x27;s exactly what this is&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;A simple and convenient collage maker will help you make cool videos for TikTok and Instagram, Facebook.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Subscription price $ 3.99 &amp;#x2F; week, $ 19.99 &amp;#x2F; year and $ 39.99 &amp;#x2F; forever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;$3.99&amp;#x2F;week subscription is deliberately predatory. It tries to bait people in thinking &amp;quot;oh it&amp;#x27;s just $3.99&amp;quot;, and then forgetting and now paying $17&amp;#x2F;month for a photo collage app.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sad this developer&amp;#x27;s had their account cancelled.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=cache:xJlbYZOPH7IJ:https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.apple.com&amp;#x2F;ye&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;oddy-side-by-side-photo-video&amp;#x2F;id1599528807&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=uk&amp;amp;client=firefox-b-d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=cache:xJlbYZ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mortallywounded</author><text>Something feels off... those apps don&amp;#x27;t seem like 33K&amp;#x2F;MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer account removed by Apple</title><url>https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cfpg</author><text>I agree, even the author aludes to this when refering to trials and how to cancel them. (text in parenthesis added by me)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One day before removal, we had 1209 active trials. (money in our pockets)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] established a help center with articles on canceling trials (cause we have a UI team dedicated on making it complicated)</text><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never seen these apps before. I have no idea who this company is. But these icons, names, and type of apps I typically associate with trash behaviour I wish was removed from the app store. Like a Video Joiner Pro that lets you concat two videos, has a 1 week free trial and then $20&amp;#x2F;month subscription.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Ahh yup, that&amp;#x27;s exactly what this is&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;A simple and convenient collage maker will help you make cool videos for TikTok and Instagram, Facebook.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Subscription price $ 3.99 &amp;#x2F; week, $ 19.99 &amp;#x2F; year and $ 39.99 &amp;#x2F; forever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;$3.99&amp;#x2F;week subscription is deliberately predatory. It tries to bait people in thinking &amp;quot;oh it&amp;#x27;s just $3.99&amp;quot;, and then forgetting and now paying $17&amp;#x2F;month for a photo collage app.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sad this developer&amp;#x27;s had their account cancelled.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=cache:xJlbYZOPH7IJ:https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.apple.com&amp;#x2F;ye&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;oddy-side-by-side-photo-video&amp;#x2F;id1599528807&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=uk&amp;amp;client=firefox-b-d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=cache:xJlbYZ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mortallywounded</author><text>Something feels off... those apps don&amp;#x27;t seem like 33K&amp;#x2F;MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer account removed by Apple</title><url>https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0</url></story>