<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>RajT88</author><text>&amp;gt; I am just saying this is a common practice&lt;p&gt;This is how AppleTV works.  I assume Apple does this with other services too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>namanyayg</author><text>One way apps get high MRR is by offering free trial for a small period, then charging for subscriptions later&lt;p&gt;The user forgets about the subscriptions and ends up paying for a while before cancelling&lt;p&gt;This is probably what apple means by &amp;quot;bait and switch&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Of course I can&amp;#x27;t say if these app did this or not, I am just saying this is a common practice</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>mikepurvis</author><text>I appreciate that you can cancel the subscription right away at the start of the trial and Apple and the vendor isn&amp;#x27;t notified.</text><parent_chain><item><author>namanyayg</author><text>One way apps get high MRR is by offering free trial for a small period, then charging for subscriptions later&lt;p&gt;The user forgets about the subscriptions and ends up paying for a while before cancelling&lt;p&gt;This is probably what apple means by &amp;quot;bait and switch&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Of course I can&amp;#x27;t say if these app did this or not, I am just saying this is a common practice</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>