I don't know how you interpret that to mean anything other than ALL those other reviews. I never said that these "well known" developers that you seem to idolize didn't actually write some positive reviews.
Then your comment was a non sequitur - given that you were
presenting it as a counter-argument to my statement, which was that I was persuaded to use Dash specifically by reviews and comments from other developers. Either you were asserting that the reviews I based my decision upon were fake, or your reply "and what makes you think ..." was trying to draw a connection between my specific statement (about relying on particular web reviews), and your belief (that at least some review somewhere on the web was fake) where actually none existed.
Let's review:
citysnaps asked if the reason Dash was considered successful might be largely because of the fraudulent reviews (ignoring for the moment that it seems the reviews deemed fraudulent were for the apps on the other account,
not for Dash).
I replied that a lot of developers like it and use it and that "I didn't decide to use it by reading the reviews for it on the App Store ..., I was convinced to use it by lots of positive references to it from other developers (some of them well known)..." I was showing that at least some people like the app for reasons entirely unrelated to the reviews on the App Store.
You then replied to me with, "And what makes you think all those reviews on OTHER sites were legit?" Counter-arguments generally need to actually be relevant to the assertion they're attempting to counter, or else they're pointless in the given context.
Thus, I necessarily interpreted your question in this way (because any other interpretation would render it not relevant to my comment that you were replying to - I made the assumption that you weren't just yelling random things): by "all those reviews" you meant the ones that led me to use Dash (since that was the main point of the bit of my comment you were replying to), and by "on OTHER sites" you meant the sites other than the App Store where I read these reviews that helped inform my decision to purchase the app. Thus implying that he had somehow saturated the developer community with fake reviews, causing them to be posted with the credentials of all sorts of other people. Which sounded awfully paranoid on your part.
I merely implied that perhaps not ALL of the external reviews were legit. Typically when app shills flood the web with fraudulent reviews, they don't just target iTunes, but other sites as well.
Ah, then I agree with your second sentence, while your first sentence says that you were, indeed, presenting something in the form of a counter-argument when it was not a valid, relevant, counter-argument. Why do this?
Are you saying that if someone were posting fake reviews that you think they would limit themselves to ONLY iTunes?
No, I am absolutely not saying that, and don't believe such. Someone posting fake reviews is likely as not going to do it in multiple places.
You also said, by the way, "In the end, the guy was a
scumbag trying to mislead buyers and Apple nabbed him.
Good riddance." That's you being judge, jury, and executioner, for someone you don't know, have never interacted with, over a situation where we have only a partial handful of the relevant facts and may never get the whole story. Seems pretty harsh.
