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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. Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Informative

    The quantity of apps on the app store suggest that you're mistaken...
    Regardless, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of developers prove you wrong - it's not that difficult to get an app approved.

    You can't really come to that conclusion without knowing the ratio of rejected apps to allowed apps. It could be that ten million apps have been submitted, and only about 1% approved. Or, it could be that 125,000 apps have been submitted and 80% have been approved. Only knowing the number that have been approved is not sufficient to make the claim that it's easy to get approved.

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  2. Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto by MobyDisk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Update: So that I don't appear to be trolling, let me point out that I just noticed this: Apple did approve that political app that I was just referring to.