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>Edit: Also regarding the reviews on a new app it's called marketing you should look into it. What you do is, you pay money and then people hear about your app and go download it.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus...

"If we find that you have attempted to manipulate reviews, inflate your chart rankings with paid, incentivized, filtered, or fake feedback, or engage with third-party services to do so on your behalf, we will take steps to preserve the integrity of the App Store, which may include expelling you from the Developer Program."

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Re-read the comment more carefully - "it's called marketing you should look into it" means you spend money to promote the app so it gets downloaded, ("and then people hear about your app and go download it"), and potentially reviewed by those users. Nowhere does it state that they paid money for any reviews.

And doing marketing is not a violation of any agreements, including the Apple one you pointlessly quoted.

Lets quote a bit more

"Also regarding the reviews on a new app it's called marketing you should look into it. "

Which was a reply to weird 5 star reviews. And no, posting arguably false good reviews on your product as id you were a random user is not marketting.

sebastien_b got my point -- we paid for advertisement and that resulted in reviews. Why is that hard to believe?

You're correct we did not buy reviews, what I meant is that we paid for very targeted marketing on day 1. We did not buy reviews EVER.

From the Apple app store link, people are giving glowing 5-star reviews that are titled "Earn Crypto for playing games", "Playing = making $$$", and "Epic btc".

From the same link, the app description says "Most users earn an amount that is only worth a fraction of one cent (USD)."

Pray tell, where is your targeted marketing finding people who get excited enough to write gushing 5-star reviews over being paid "a fraction of one cent (USD)"? On the first couple of days after release, no less.

Users who already played on our android app. We sent out messages to all our Android users and some of them use both platforms have and iPad or use an Android phone for work iPhone for personal. They jumped straight in we had hundreds of downloads.

You "paid for very targeted marketing on day 1" to "Users who already played on our android app", to quote your own posts, to get the reviews we see on the Apple app store?

Your statements are difficult to parse into any kind of coherent defense.

We did both. I was being asked about specific reviews and where I think they came from.

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