Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews

Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews 178

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:47PM 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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Knock-offs (Score:4, Funny)

by amicusNYCL ( 1538833 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:50PM (#30366854)

described in this article as "knock-offs of existing applications."
The Chinese producing knock-offs of existing things? Surely you jest!

wouldn't you know it (Score:1, Funny)

by jollyreaper ( 513215 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:50PM (#30366856)

Chinese app farmers.

Great! (Score:3, Funny)

by AntiRush ( 1175479 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:53PM (#30366884) Homepage

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

Re:Thank goodness! (Score:5, Funny)

by Pieroxy ( 222434 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @01:01PM (#30366978) Homepage

Now a user only needs to sort through 99,000 cheap knockoffs.
And a few hundred expensive ones.

Do these iPhone apps use... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @01:05PM (#30367034)

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

Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto (Score:2, Funny)

by shog9 ( 154858 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @01:14PM (#30367158)

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"?

Re:Knock-offs (Score:3, Funny)

by Tator Tot ( 1324235 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @01:37PM (#30367426)

He does jest. And dont call him Surely.

Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? (Score:3, Funny)

by Presto Vivace ( 882157 ) writes: <ammarshall@vivaldi.net> on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @01:51PM (#30367610) Homepage Journal

there is an anti-astroturfing movement within the PR industry [thenewpr.com]

Re:Knock offs? How ingenious!! (Score:3, Funny)

by amicusNYCL ( 1538833 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:01PM (#30367802)

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

Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? (Score:2, Funny)

by maxume ( 22995 ) writes: on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:12PM (#30367946)

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

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Knock-offs (Score:4, Funny)

wouldn't you know it (Score:1, Funny)

Great! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Thank goodness! (Score:5, Funny)

Do these iPhone apps use... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:How in the heck did he get 1000 apps in the sto (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Knock-offs (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Knock offs? How ingenious!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Did anyone look at their other apps???!? (Score:2, Funny)

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