Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is accused again of manipulating the application charts presented in the App Store for owners of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touches to promote their own titles instead of other third-party applications available in the App Store.
More precisely, the Apple company constantly presents 5-6 of its own applications in the top of the most popular free applications, some believing that everything would actually be a problem of the virtual store, but in reality it would only be about a gross manipulation by to the Americans.
This conclusion was drawn by some who noticed that the applications from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), they appear repeatedly and in large numbers in the charts of the most popular applications of the App Store, that is, they are promoted there almost once every two days, and that in a rather strange way.
Everything happens in the US App Store and practically Apple gives the Americans to understand that applications such as iMovie, Numbers, Keynote, Numbers or Pages would be more popular than Facebook, Twitter, Messenger or Snapchat, but of course the reality is completely different and not only in the USA.
In the Top 10 Free Apps on the iPhone's App Store, the number 4 through number 8 positions – out of the blue – went to Apple's own software applications. In order, the #4 through #8 spots were given to iMovie, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iTunes U. These apps were ranked higher than Facebook and Instagram for the day.
The algorithms on the basis of which the App Store presents the most popular applications in the charts has always been discussed by developers and not only, and this new scandal, which is only at the beginning, will bring even more questions for those from Cupertino in the future .
Although some might have big problems believing that Apple could manipulate the App Store charts to promote its own creations, in reality those from Cupertino are perfectly capable of such tactics.
