Over the course of 9 months, Khalid Shaikh and his team of 26 employees have submitted over 900 applications to the App Store. That is a very huge 
amount of apps from one company. Unfortunately none of these 900 applications were of good quality. Shaikh and his dev team didn’t care about the quality of the apps, they just cared about making as much money as possible. Instead of pricing their apps as 99 cents each, Shaikh priced them $4.99 each. Mobile Crunch estimates that he earned thousands of dollars per day from sales until he got banned.
On Friday, July 24 Apple revoked Sheikh’s developer license and removed all his apps from the App Store. It’s not because of the quality of apps that Shaikh got banned, but it’s because he had copyright issues with a lot of applications. Apple did the right thing by banning him. Imagine if Apple had to check through each and every app for copyright issues, that would really slow down the approval of apps.
Unfortunately Shaikh is not the only iPhone Developer who is flooding the App Store with cheap quality apps. Brighthouse Labs, the company with the most iPhone apps in the App Store has over 2,000 apps for 99 cents and seems to have copyright issues just like Shaikh did. Their apps are still up in the App Store and judging by the reviews of some apps it doesn’t look like people like them.
What do you think about Shaikh getting banned? Do you think he deserved it? Have you come across other iPhone developers doing the same thing? Leave a comment.
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I think every one should do whatever he wants, as we (AppStore customers) must do. I believe AppStore should allow refund period, as it is not the 1st time i buy app that is not worth time for downloading :(, and it was from other companies. So, if one want to play games like those, people will be able to try apps before they take decisions of keeping it or apply for refund..
Half the apps are crappy on appstore, whats apple got against this guy? & about the copyrights issue….you people are sure the billion apps all are proper with their copyrights and stuff?
I SMELL A FISH!
AND THE TOP FIRST GUY….GET A LIFE BRO, THE SECOND DUDE IS RIGHT….ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO CREATE TERRORISTS!
crappy apps for 4.99?? Of course they should be banned!!!
“Imagine if Apple had to check through each and every app for copyright issues, that would really slow down the approval of apps.”
Huh! If they are not checking, then what’s the whole purpose of this strict procedure? And I don’t think removing all of their apps is appropriate. Among the 900 apps, at least a few were pretty good and without licensing problems.
Congrats Apple on doing such a superb job rooting the weed out of the grass. That’s why Apple’s such a great company. Clean the AppStore house I say. I’m glad people like these get banned, they were ripping off unsuspecting people
Wait, apple has an app store??!!
Wait , apple has an app store??!!
LOL because apple pulled the pakis apps and banned him for publishing absolute shit and charging stupid amounts effectivly ripping off 100s of ppl, they are racist??? STFU will ya *eye roll* pakis are renowned for ripping ppl off! and charging what he was for the shit he was making it wouldn’t suprise me at all if the proceeds were indeed for terrorism man! You can’t trust these ppl as far as you could throw em!
How many shoe bombs do you rekkon you could buy for the money he was making RIPPING PPL OFFFFFFFF?!! lol.
@Rob
you sound like such a desperate
first of all how would u know if he is a paki?
secondly, STFU and you’re not FUNNY! so don’t lol on ur lame jokes!!
yes, i am sick of those crappy apps and apple should take serious actions against developers like this guy.
@tattobilla you sound like a sand your self softlad.
First of all you can eat tasty chocolate. I know a paki name when i see ya.
Secondly i wasn’t trying to be “FUNNY!” so again, eat tasty choolate. They weren’t jokes, they were truth. But hey, you just sit there in your secluded little bubble and pretend for your self you have a clue ;) !LOLs!
what a magician *eye roll* bla :)
He should be allowed to do what he wants (except for the copyright thing). If it wasn’t for that and him slowing apple down, they shouldn’t have banned him. If people are stupid enough to buy crappy apps for $4.99, let them.
READ THE REVIEWS!!!!! Who would but an app for $5 if it had all 1 star ratings!?!!? !!
I think the rascist comment above should be removed. Also rob just some information for your little brain the guy is not from Pakistan it’s actually a middle eastern name and you probably don’t know but Pakistan is not in the middle east. Go back to school and learn some manners