Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipulation”

Re:Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipula... by 0x0 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:04PM (#12654608)

Sounds pretty heavy-handed to ban the whole account for alleged review vote stuffing. Even if there was actual review spam going on, couldn't this be solved by just removing all existing reviews and blocking further reviews, so the app could be downloaded by searching the app store (or via a direct itunes link)? Brutal.

It also opens up a massive blackmail opportunity. Pay up or we will review-spam your app with 10000 fake 5 stars so Apple kicks you out. It's reverse xrumer all over again. Nice.

Lots of speciality and companion apps don't make any revenue from app store sales and don't care about rankings. I'm sure there's a fairly big subset of app store developers that would be happy to run their apps unlisted and possibly unreviewed, since there is no other way to deploy an ios app to the general public.

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Re:Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipula... by ncr100 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:33PM (#12746960)

As I replied elsewhere in this thread - Bogdan is being requested by Apple to claim Apple was Correct in Banning him.

Apple found a Niece of Bogdan's for whom he bought an Apple Dev account & shared test devices, had fraud on their app review.

But Apple did not notify him they had "linked his account" to hers - and he got mysteriously banned.

I think Apple is making things worse, in this situation.

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