I kid. :)

Anyway, I would worry a bit about overzealous banning when promo codes lead to good reviews just because the app is good, rather than astroturfing, because I imagine dealing with Apple to get reinstated wouldn’t be fun, but all in all its good to see this happening.

What Apple should have done is to delete existing comments and block future comments so that no promotional or negative comments could be posted.

What Apple seems to forget is that the telephones they sell are no longer their property and if an owner wishes to install anything they should be free to do so without Jobs having anything to do with them except to cull his excessive commission from sales. Little wonder users decide to jailbreak THEIR telephones so they can exercise THEIR rights independently of Jobs and Apple.

Now that Apple has some real competition in the cell field the consumers can now vote with their pocketbook and buy products that don’t suffer from spontaneous combustion, exploding screens and melting cases and don’t require the completion of non-disclosure agreements in order to access warranty.

As for the App Store review process, I’m pretty much on the side of not caring when developers quit or something like this happens. However, I do find it intriguing that Apple appears to care enough about criticism of the review process that Phil Schiller pops up in an interview every few weeks.

Finally, in regards to this particular example, I’d be shocked if Molinker was the first to figure out the promo code method of astroturfing. One could then question how it is that such a method of questionable reviewing could have been allowed in the first place, let alone tolerated for so long.

This article is about as unbiased and unopinionated as news reporting gets.

It ain’t perfect, like most things in life there is always room for improvement, but there is no way you can call it evil or broken or anything short of successful.