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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. Thank goodness! by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    --
    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  2. Re:At The Risk by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In order to find the answer to your question, let's take a look at the Middle East and consider that this wasteland of genocidal religious fanatics was once home to the most advanced mathematics in the world only 500 years ago. Mashallah.