Apple Axes Scamming iPhone Developer, 1K Apps

Molinker apparently paid for good reviews in App Store
By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 8, 2009 12:16 PM CST
Apple Axes Scamming iPhone Developer, 1K Apps
A poster touting applications available for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch hangs from a metal support at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.   (AP Photo)

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.)

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