Earlier this month, a LOT of spam apps have appeared in the Windows Phone Store. You can find most of them in the music+videos category, by going to new apps. All of the apps have the same icon with a gray background and spammy names. They are made by different developers.
I was wondering if someone could help reporting the apps? There are so many of them.
EDIT: Below are some examples of spam apps. These apps have no purpose and are basically the same apps with changed titles and random letters in the description.
There are "batung" apps from batung2 to batung64.
There are "bo" apps from bo1 to bo10.
There are "minhcu" apps from minhcu1 to minhcu26.
There are "buiduckhanh" apps from buiduckhanh399410 to buiduckhanh399436.
And that's just a small amount of similar spam apps. It seems like all of the apps are created in App Studio.
The crazy thing is that ALL of these apps are published by different accounts. How could this possibly get approved?
This issue, like many others, is known very well by non US customers and it's old. Apparently Microsoft has cleaned up the US market but not most of the foreign ones (which is yet one more reason why US customers appear to be happier somewhat).
Reported here:
Windows Phone Store drowning in spam web apps?
More rants (fully justified IMHO):
Windows Phone Store: these aren?t the Facebook apps you?re looking for | istartedsomething
That was last March:
In September, they are still dragging the issue along:
Microsoft accused of cleaning up only the US app store
However, they insist in boasting an alleged "Increase in applications", elegantly skipping on saying that many are plain spam, a lot have in app purchasing (therefore not free as they claim and illegal based on EU laws), while others are copies of one another (Maps) and tons have same icons too. Flappy birds comes to my mind.
It's a very well known issue that nobody at Microsoft seems to care of. I can understand an US user arguing in the blog as they don't have a view of the global market and just focus on their experience or the US at best. I cannot justify a global company ripping off users though.
That market is as empty as ever, if you remove all the trash.