Apple Finally Removes Non-Customer Reviews
When Apple first launched the App Store, anyone could submit a review for an application. Users weren’t required to actually purchase an application before being allowed to review it. Due to this system, almost every application seen a hefty drop in their overall rating. In September 2008, Apple put an end to all of that nonsense, and only allowed customers who purchased an application to review it, but for some reason they left the offending reviews in place. According to MacRumors , Apple has now finally removed the non-customer reviews. They cite a few long standing applications receiving a large decrease in their review counts such as SEGA’s Super Monkey Ball . According to their forum members, the reviews that were removed were only old, non-customer reviews. It’s odd that it took this long to remove the non-customer reviews. Maybe Apple didn’t want to cause a fuss by removing the non-customer reviews immediately after putting a stop to them. Whatever their reason was is irrelevant, the review system is now the way it should have been in the first place. This is as fair as it’s probably going to get.
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Apple Finally Removes Non-Customer Reviews
