This is very good news. Less spammy shitty apps makes more room for real developers, and less frustration for users.

I'm kind of suprised they don't have some sort of analytic system in place to detect this sort of thing automatically.

I hope they are working on one, as manually discovering this thing with the amount of apps/developers would be nigh impossible. The only trouble would be with false positives, so then you'd need an additional manual review system on top of that (of which one would think they're already short on reviewers anyway).

This article title is ambiguous enough that it makes what happened sound like it was a bad thing...

dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982042

But how does one developer get 1011 apps through into the app store in the first place?

Wow - easy way to get your competitors kicked out of the AppStore!