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Funny you should say that ! I came across these images less than a day ago. Here is an image of what looks like a worker in China manipulating App store rankin

Funny you should say that ! I came across these images less than a day ago. Here is an image of what looks like a worker in China manipulating App store rankings using an array of some hundred 5Cs. http://i.imgur.com/EWyVh0X.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EWyVh0X.jpg And here is an image purportedly showing the prices for a Top 10 spot in Apple's App Store, achieved through ranking manipulation. http://i.imgur.com/TZuf1iP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TZuf1iP.jpg [1] This disturbing image of a Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones reveals how App Store rankings can be manipulated http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-shows-how-fake-app-store-rankings-are-made-2015-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-shows-how-fake-app-stor...

walterbell 12y ago
Couldn't that be automated with jailbroken devices?
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  My totally uninformed guess is - it probably was, and then Apple/Google decided to implement human-detecting measures like monitoring tapping patterns, and the market switched to employing real humans.
TorKlingberg 12y ago
They probably only affect the Chinese App Store. The stores are separate, and the Chinese one is censored.
- c1sc0 12y ago
  I very much doubt those iOS devices are hooked up to Chinese credit cards. In fact, I bet that they are set up to cycle through a series of credit cards.
- coralreef 12y ago
  They can just proxy through to the US and use US app store accounts.