Looking at that list I'm surprised they have completely gotten rid of some of those companies. Like Brighthouse Labs is completely gone. I would have pictured apple to stop accepting spam apps from them. Then they would have just sit idle on the appstore with there thousands of apps and ride it out into the sunset.
Not that I'm complaining. Great to see some of these spam app companies get the boot.
There really is no incentive for apple to care about app store spamming.
App store revenues overall are still growing, and Apple features the best apps anyway so consumers don't really see all the crap crowding the app store. The only people this affects are small-time devs like us. And Apple has no financial incentive to help us, since we are small-time and don't bring them significant revenue.
This has been a problem since I've started on the app store, and even though Apple makes statements from time to time saying they would crack down, in reality they don't really put a lot of effort into it. It's just not worth it for them.
Well, I wouldn't say they have no incentive. Improving the overall quality of apps in the store would seem to be in Apple's best interest. Better apps means higher customer satisfaction both with the app store and their devices. Improving the app store could also draw better developers. I find it highly likely that at least some of the seeming indifference to removing spam developers has more to do with possible legal ramifications than anything else. Having said that, however, yes, it would be nice if they were more aggressive.
It was a pleasant surprise a few weeks ago when I read that they were issuing takedown notices to App Trackr for pirated apps.
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Originally Posted by bignoggins
There really is no incentive for apple to care about app store spamming.
App store revenues overall are still growing, and Apple features the best apps anyway so consumers don't really see all the crap crowding the app store. The only people this affects are small-time devs like us. And Apple has no financial incentive to help us, since we are small-time and don't bring them significant revenue.
This has been a problem since I've started on the app store, and even though Apple makes statements from time to time saying they would crack down, in reality they don't really put a lot of effort into it. It's just not worth it for them.
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But they don't really need to go after app spammers to increase quality. The top app lists now compared to 2 years ago are much much different. 2 years ago fart apps dominated the top lists. Now, the occasional scam app gets through, but the the lists that most people see have pretty high quality apps. So I think as a percentage of the overall apps that are downloaded by users, these spam apps are an extremely tiny percentage, so it really isn't worth going after since the benefit to overall appearance of quality would be negligible.
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Originally Posted by MichaelE
Well, I wouldn't say they have no incentive. Improving the overall quality of apps in the store would seem to be in Apple's best interest. Better apps means higher customer satisfaction both with the app store and their devices. Improving the app store could also draw better developers. I find it highly likely that at least some of the seeming indifference to removing spam developers has more to do with possible legal ramifications than anything else. Having said that, however, yes, it would be nice if they were more aggressive.
It was a pleasant surprise a few weeks ago when I read that they were issuing takedown notices to App Trackr for pirated apps.
Top 5 publishers (spammers ?) for Dec, 2011
Great to see some of these spam app companies get the boot.
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