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Originally Posted by johnqh
Putting in fake reviews or having friends review your app is nothing ethical, but "wire fraud"?
Stop throwing big words around. I was with you until your last two posts.
Fake reviews are common problems with App store. Actually, it is a common problem with the whole web-based commerce. It is nothing new, and it is not limited to small time developers. There have been scandals with big companies too.
On the other hand, it is a problem regardless whether your opponent is a real obj-C developer or not, so leave that out in your arguments please.
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Ok fair enough, whether someone can write Objective C code or not has no part in the argument.
Given the amounts involved, wire fraud would be a stretch. Although in the strictest sense, it could be construed as such.
European commercial practice laws contain a clause about "falsely representing oneself as a consumer", which is what is going on here. But again, given the amounts involved no one is really going to put in the effort to do anything about something like this. But what about an app that turns over tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars? Where is the line drawn? I know it's a huge issue on amazon, ebay, etc. I was hoping (somewhat naively probably) that the app store wouldn't fall prey to this,
The BBC recently had an
article about this.
