The devs doing this crap don't have reviews that is why they continually release the same binary and mark the what's new as "bug fixes", my app is in the card category so I watch that category very carefully and I see this kind of thing at least every other day.
I fully support charging a very small fee for new apps and updates. Just like a $5 fee, or $4.99 since apple seems to like 99 so much. That would keep people from spamming the app store and devs with decent apps would make that back in a day.
Then still allowing both updates and new apps to show up in new releases, because sometimes an update is considered a new release in my opinion. For example, I know another dev in card games that is doing a multiplayer update, that is a large update and deserves to appear in the new releases so people know about it.
- Luke
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Originally Posted by MarkC
But lose all their reviews. I know I wouldn't want to lose the hundreds of ratings I've got and have to start from scratch!
Pros and cons for both options I guess... Anyway, it's all in Apple's hands, so hypothesising is pointless on our part  |
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Originally Posted by VMan
Since the annual developer fee allows an unlimited number of apps to be on the App Store, I would guess that a dev wouldn't remove their app, but submit a variation of their existing app as a new app while still leaving the original app in the store.
In which case, everybody's sales for a particular app may diminish with an increase in dilution of that market.
Visibility will then be even more difficult as not only will an update for an existing app not be visible on the newly released list, but there will be a semi-artificial increase in competing apps (at least in increase of titles).
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