These days the removing an app both from the App Store and the Mac App Store. Is about Dash, an application with great success in Apple's application stores but which, according to Tim Cook and company, would have achieved such fame using fraudulent techniques. After the developer wrote on his blog that he did not know what was happening, Apple has decided to move the tab explaining a little more in depth the reasons that led him to take action against the developer.
According to Apple, the developer had two accounts and 25 apps in total. So far, everything normal. The problem is that there was over 1.000 fraudulent reviews, among which there were many to speak well of their own applications. But there is still something that aggravated the situation: the developer was also in charge of writing negative reviews on the applications of its competition.
Dash developer wrote 1.000 scam reviews
Nearly 1.000 fraudulent reviews were detected on two accounts and 25 apps from this developer, so we removed their apps and accounts from the App Store.
We warned you to try to stop it and attempts were made to resolve the issue with the developer, but to no avail. We will remove developer accounts for review and rating fraud, including actions designed to harm other developers. This is a responsibility that we take very seriously, for the good of all our customers and developers.
At first, the Dash developer said not knowing what was going on and he denied everything Apple said, but yesterday he acknowledged that he had been talking to spokesmen for the block. In fact, he recorded and published the last conversation with Apple, in which those from Cupertino asked him to write an entry on their blog acknowledging their faults. The developer also says that he let another account use his card to carry out some transactions and that this is the reason why the accounts were linked, something he was unaware of.
In any case, if we believe what the developer says we cannot say that it is entirely his fault, but I think that publishing a private conversation with an Apple spokesperson is not the best way to try to return to the App Stores ...