tuaw.com— Apple has issued a reminder to developers that it will not tolerate use of third party services to manipulate app rankings in the App Store. \"When you
Feb 7, 2012View in Crawl 4
It's really disappointing to me as a developer seeing this happen (people buying reviews / download).
I develop a Woot iPhone App called Trackwoot (http://bit.ly/trackwootapp) and we've been increasing our downloads as well as trying to get users to remember to review the app organically. Recently another competitor showed up in the app store and immediately rocketed past us and it's obvious that this is not an organic event. I'd very much like to see Apple reward developers for good apps, not deep pockets.
mraustin1337Feb 7, 2012
It's really disappointing to me as a developer seeing this happen (people buying reviews / download).
I develop a Woot iPhone App called Trackwoot (http://bit.ly/trackwootapp) and we've been increasing our downloads as well as trying to get users to remember to review the app organically. Recently another competitor showed up in the app store and immediately rocketed past us and it's obvious that this is not an organic event. I'd very much like to see Apple reward developers for good apps, not deep pockets.
donnyFeb 7, 2012
yeah, the rolling blackouts podcast should be #1!