Aren't there farms of mobiles on racks in Thai and Chinese houses set up specifically to game those ratings? (Remembering some arrests within the last month or so...)
Would be easy to assume there are many such setups around the world.
Speaking of which, how are they controlling iPhones like this? I cannot imagine they are all jailbroken, so how do they achieve automation like this?
FB also has a huge setup like this https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-d... but it doesn't exactly say how it is done.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg That particular image is from a TV show, but when people say "click farms", that's what to picture.
Imagine creating email addresses to make app store accounts to rate apps. For 10 hours, every day, for $1/hour.
Most blue collar jobs pay significantly lower.
What surprises me is that they allow this since it's totally unfair to developers like me and my girlfriend that make a great effort in the time free of work to make those apps...
As far as I know Google Play allows you to rate an app only when you have installed it.
If someone was using "farms of mobiles", you'd expect the installs to go up too.