I've been thinking about this, and the conclusion I came to is that you'll never be fully able to block fake, scammy apps. You can definitely make them less eff

I've been thinking about this, and the conclusion I came to is that you'll never be fully able to block fake, scammy apps. You can definitely make them less effective, though. Here's some random ideas I came up with: * Charging $8 a week seems hard to justify in pretty much any situation. Why not enforce a max cap on app subscription fees? I assume these apps use Apple's payment system, so they can control that. * Fake reviews are only as effective as their exposure. Assuming spoofing location is hard, for example GPS-based location is used exclusively, if Apple limited ratings and review availability based on location (put review data in a quadtree, for example) scammers would have to go through more hoops to ensure their fake reviews are effective. ** Of course, if location is based only on IP or other spoofable data this becomes much easier to circumvent. * Keeping reviews visible only if the user regularly uses the app ensures there's an extra cost to generating fake reviews as they have to be maintained.