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1000 apps pulled from App Store after review scam

article published on 8 December, 2009

Apple has removed 1000 apps from the iPhone App Store after it was discovered that the developer Molinker was using a review scam to give its own apps 5-star reviews. The developer has now been banned from the App Store and had all of its 1000 apps removed. Molinker had created about 1 percent off all App Store apps. The issue was brought to Apple's attention by reader "SCW" of the ... [ read the full article ]

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stuntman_
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_ 		8. December 2009 @ 14:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if the Apps were any good this kind of sucks 1,000 is a lot of apps
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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		8. December 2009 @ 23:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Apple is bound and determined on losing customers it gained during the Vista debacle. Now that Win7 has been released there is no reason to ever consider buying an Apple product. For music I use a 32 track recorder. The iphone was cool when it was first released. Now it's just another smartphone.
Hitler Jobs wants to rule the world. Heil Jobs!

Soon Apple will but yet again dip below the double digit number of users Apple fan boys are used to.
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Gnawnivek
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 12:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At first i thought Apple was removing 1000 apps that scam your money, lol. They're just removing the apps that have artificially boosted rating.
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