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App Store Ranking Manipulation How Chinese Rank Their Apps

Check out this image, showing a Chinese woman sitting face-to-face with 100s of iPhones, went viral on Chinese social media websites. The image reveals the way the Chinese are gaming the rating process for the App Store. The site, revealed within the image, shows a 'Top App list worker' within their work environment, featuring a simple shelf that contain hundreds of iPhones. In a room loaded with such workstations from a single side to another, mobile phone labor takes place at a commercial level. Putting it simple, an employee downloads (and removes and downloads, etc.) an app to enhance its rank on the App Store, determined by how frequently the app has been downloaded. One worker can easily work as around 100 unique users . if you ever wanted to get your app into the Top 10 Free Apps list, you'll have to pay approximately $11,200 and for maintain it there, you would have to pay a “maintenance” charge of $65,000 per week, ouch! There may also be monthly cos...