Stop yelling fire when there is none. If you want community support, then link your apps.
Link to the apps currently "with Google, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows (Phone) 7, and several other app stores". Tell us the name of your company. Tell us the names of the titles pulled.
Until you release any of this, you are yelling fire when there is clearly none.
I am hoping you represent all the slot machine apps on the App Store. They are ridiculous - taking money from deluded gambling addicts with no way to win.
I was advised not to risk any media problem yet by revealing my company. I am asking for any advice or help from anyone who has been in the same situation.
I hate to do this, but you've wasted a lot of time with your post and comments. Like many people in this thread, I was frustrated by your refusal to give us basic information such as your company name.
What does Mobifusion make? Almost 200 apps. A bunch of recipe apps. Lots of cocktail recipe apps. Vegan recipe apps. Various public domain works (Bible, Quran, etc). There are a lot of identical or extremely similar apps. Different versions of the CIA World Factbook. Different versions of the Bible. Some Harry Potter encyclopedias, etc.
It's no wonder Apple removed these. It's no wonder you refused to reveal your company.
Again, I didn't want to do this, but you tried to take advantage of HN. You falsely painted Apple in a bad light and falsely portrayed your own company as blameless. Shame on you.
If you look at the ratings in the Android Market it looks quite fishy. Most apps have tons of five star ratings (especially shortly after release) and all from the same device "Asus Nexus 7" and from similar usernames.
Then some apps have very low ratings probably from the real users.
"We were in the middle of an especially tenacious individual who was fraudulently claiming we were using a name he did not have a TM on. As our lawyers were trying to solve the problem, we were shut down."
The title of the app uses a best-seller author and book name, and is in fact just the 52 "quotes" from the author.
Then, the real-user review shows that the app doesn't deliver even that:
"The latest update at first told me my licence was invalid, then when I wouldn't fill in my email address to get spam from mobifusion it would crash and exit."
I voted this story up, because if true, this is the kind of thing that is valuable community information. But now that you've made it clear that you don't intend to let us know who you are, I regret it. I think it's probable you've got something to hide, and that Apple likely has a legitimate case against you.
I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone reveals it for you - it didn't take much Google-fu to find it out.
I believe it's your decision whether to name your company (so I'm not going to do it for you), but I doubt everyone who might be interested will feel the same way.
Link to the apps currently "with Google, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows (Phone) 7, and several other app stores". Tell us the name of your company. Tell us the names of the titles pulled.
Until you release any of this, you are yelling fire when there is clearly none.