> If you're depending on people to "discover" your app without having ever heard of you, then you are choosing to gamble and attempting to game a system that ev

> If you're depending on people to "discover" your app without having ever heard of you, then you are choosing to gamble and attempting to game a system that every other gambler is trying to game right alongside you. Bingo! All the popular indie apps that don't use every possible strategy to get to the top of the heap will fail. By choosing the top rated apps in the top 20, you are playing the same game. If you don't like indie apps, don't download them. "The only way to win is not to play." You don't like that game, play a different game. Don't hurt the many, many developers who are in fact making a living making apps. And don't spite them just because they're living the dream of earning a full time income working as their own boss from home and it's what you'd like to be doing. >The App Store is a cesspool of every developer who figured out how to install XCode acting like they automatically deserve to win the windfall lottery. I don't disagree, but it also has some very nice apps. If you think an app really sucks, by all means slam it in the reviews. It's a service to other people who may download it. But I'm complaining about people rating apps they otherwise consider to be 4- or 5-star apps, and that they then vote down to 1-star because they're pissed about being asked to review. That's lying out of spite, is hurting a developer who otherwise did a good job on their app, and is uncool.