If you will look in App Store Romania you will notice that the charts of the most purchased/downloaded applications are populated by all kinds of dubious applications that appear there all of a sudden, even if they are cool or completely useless. It's all part of a business mechanism to promote apps that no one would ever want to use, with naive users paying money for them just because they're on top.
The promotion of applications is done by downloading/using and publishing fictitious reviews published in App Store, and the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has been working since the beginning of the year to clean his store of pointless reviews. The American company deleted tens of thousands of reviews of some applications from App Store only because they were left with the idea that users would receive points for downloading various applications, the problem affecting all App Stores in the world.
Although Apple warns its developers that the use of third-party systems that manipulate the App Store can leave them outside the company's stores, not many seem to be afraid. For them, Apple started to delete reviews from its stores, a process that has been in the works for more than half a year and will continue in the following months until the problems are solved. No one knows how Apple chooses the reviews it deletes, but the important thing is that it does something to protect us.
