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  • Apple layeth down the law on guaranteed marketing services
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    Apple layeth down the law on guaranteed marketing services

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    When the news broke today that many game companies with apps in Apple's Top 25 App Store Charts have paid for marketing services guaranteeing top placement either by allegedly using bots or some mysteriously unknownlegitimate strategy (that we'd love to discover the secret of), we knew that it would hit Apple's radar screen. And tonight, it has. Apple just posted on its Developer Blog and News Feed a message re-iterating its policy in regards third-party marketing services and paying to manipulate the top rankings of its chart is, don't do it . . . or else.
  • Are the top free games on the App Store the result of bot-farming?
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    Are the top free games on the App Store the result of bot-farming?

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    Interesting allegations surfaced on the TouchArcade forums overnight, as an anonymous developer revealed that a certain company promised they could get his app in the Top 25 through the devious use of bots. Shocking? Absolutely. But what's more shocking is the list of developers that this firm counts among its list of clients.