Apple has taken the extreme step of yanking all 1,000 apps produced by Molinker after it learned that the Chinese developer had faked glowing reviews of its apps to drive up ratings and increase its downloads. The fraud was first reported by the iPhoneography blog late last month. It was brought to iPhoneography’s attention by a reader, Patrick Timney, who spotted similarities in reviews — many of which were apparently very poorly written — all praising apps developed by Molinker.

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