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Originally Posted by mpatric
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. |
When you are calm, we are getting somewhere.
All laws are local. I am not in Europe so I don't know about the law there. However, all reviews are local too. If he posted the fake review in the US store, it is in theory isolated from the European store.
However, it is a hard argument to tell people not to send promo code to friends and families. However giving out codes online (including this forum). The whole point of promo codes is to get favorable reviews. Don't pretend it any other way.
Apple has the database which can easily block promo code receivers from writing the reviews, but do you really want them to do that?
Again, you ignored the hard truth, and the ugliest part - competitors posting negative reviews. They don't mind spending the $1 or whatever price to smear your app.
They paid to get your app, so all your legal arguments don't apply, yet, that's way more annoying than self-promoted positive reviews.
Sorry to say, that has been discussed to death, in this forum and in Apple's Dev forum. Unfortunately, there is no resolution. We just have to live with it.
