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Yep. I look at it this way: Apple has a team, or teams, dedicated to detecting and stopping fraudulent behavior. People on these teams are very smart and are li
by codezero 10y ago
Yep. I look at it this way: Apple has a team, or teams, dedicated to detecting and stopping fraudulent behavior. People on these teams are very smart and are likely using very sophisticated methods for detecting fraudulent behavior and attributing it, and they are very sensitive to false positives.
It's likely better to take no action than to take action, so when you take action, it is only when there is a very strong positive signal.
Again, I'm making assumptions because this is how the work I did went. There are a lot of things that can be done before dropping an app from the store entirely, and Apple is incentivized to keep the apps in the store – they get paid when people buy them, so removing them is a last straw.
- coldcode 10y agoI know of one very large company that paid for downloads and 5 star reviews for years; I doubt Apple would ever do more than ask pretty please. Given how far their rating has fallen recently they might have been asked to stop. But that's a long way from punishment.