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Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews

Posted by timothy on from the built-in-garbage-collection dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Molinker, a Chinese developer of iPhone apps, has been booted from the App Store after being caught trying to game the App Store review system. It seems reviewers were being paid off with free apps in return for 5-star reviews." This means the removal of over 1000 apps, described in this article as "knock-offs of existing applications."

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  1. Knock-offs by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Funny

    described in this article as "knock-offs of existing applications."

    The Chinese producing knock-offs of existing things? Surely you jest!

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    1. Re:Knock-offs by Tator+Tot · · Score: 3, Funny

      He does jest. And dont call him Surely.

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  2. wouldn't you know it by jollyreaper · · Score: 1, Funny

    Chinese app farmers.

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  3. Great! by AntiRush · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, a new way to remove my competition from the app store. Post good reviews on their apps!

  4. Re:Thank goodness! by Pieroxy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now a user only needs to sort through 99,000 cheap knockoffs.

    And a few hundred expensive ones.

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  5. Do these iPhone apps use... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    JBOSS? We use JBOSS at work, it's great. Everybody should use JBOSS.

  6. Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto by shog9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But, if you're doing that sort of app design work then you should expect some troubles and understand you might need to tweak and adjust to accomplish your goal

    "Social debugging"?

  7. Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 2, Funny

    there is an anti-astroturfing movement within the PR industry

  8. Re:Knock offs? How ingenious!! by amicusNYCL · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Tungsten W invented pinball and card games? I did not know that.

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  9. Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet that there is also a pro-democracy movement within China.

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