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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."

2 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto by w0mprat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Have you actually seen the iPhone app store? There's like 50 different fart button apps. Infact, I've heard jokes that the app store is really the same 100 applications 1000 times over. The point isn't too far from the truth however. The app store is completely glutted.

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  2. Re:At The Risk by Lord+Maud'Dib · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge he's like a detuned radio." Radiohead