Apple has delivered swift corporal punishment to iPhone app developer Molinker for scamming the App Store ratings system, banning the company and removing more than a 1000 applications. Though this particular move seems just, Wired notes, it highlights the cutthroat stakes of the user ratings game in a marketplace where few trial versions exist. The expelled Chinese developer was apparently paying for good ratings with free versions of its applications—mostly cheap knockoffs. (More Apple stories.)