One of the many examples, this is an illegal repackage of https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-the-icc-champions-trophy-2017/
But there are thousands of free itch.io games illegally repackaged and sold as premium ios apps
Apple is complicit and doesn’t care as they take 30% of each sale
years ago there were tons of flash sites for games, long before smartphones. a whole heap of those games were repackaged and sold as games in app stores, and they often got into the news because somebody’s toddler racked up $100,000 or some crazy amount with in game purchases. kongregate was the first site that I remember was aimed towards the Devs making money or getting a name etc.
Pretty sure that angry birds was a repackaged version of a very popular trebuchet game at the time… There were a lot of them.
Honestly, if someone is stupid enough to save their card info on their child’s gaming device and not even put it under parental controls, then they deserve the life-altering debt that they wind up with…
Still doesn’t excuse the predatory software companies who target children, or the app stores and operating systems which enable them. But my sympathy is not with the parents.