> It's basically the same problem Amazon has, with the fly-by-night "companies" that sell junk, on their site.

At least the junk apps are not stolen from someone and being resold in the app store as a fence.

There are plenty of apps that are plain ripoffs, and lifting assets from the apps they imitate.

Not so sure about that. I am not into searching for it, but I read, somewhere, that abandoned apps are being stolen, or brought for pennies, then resold (sometimes, with some “extra spice”).