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Apple finally removes old reviews from non-owners in the App Store
Posted on February 27th, 2009 CommentsMacRumors reports that Apple has finally started deleting the old, mostly negative reviews from non-owners in the App Store.
No purchase was required at that time. As a result, many critical “reviews” came from those who had never bought those applications. Developers, of course, were particularly unhappy with this system which brought down the average score for almost all paid applications.
This is great news for apps that have been in the store for a while.
Several long standing apps have seen dramatic decreases in their review counts. SEGA’s Super Monkey Ball count dropped from 4197 reviews down to 3710 while Namco’s Pac Man dropped from 395 to 122.
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