I remember the first time I heard about Khalid Shaikh, he was making a killing off the Apple App Store.  His 26 employee team based in Pakistan were delivering Apple applications at a fast pace.  The reason why Shaikh was making a killing was because he had 900 useless applications listed on the iTunes App Store.  But Apple decided to revoke Shaikh’s license and ban is company from making further applications.

Shaikh’s whole business model for his company called Perfect Acumen has been shot down and Apple helps curb spam from entering their App Store at the same time.  In less than 6 months, Perfect Acumen published 943 applications on the App Store, putting it at an average of 5 applications approved every day for 250 days.  All of the applications had to go through Apple’s approval process which took up to 6 weeks for some of them to get approved.

Shaikh made a few thousand dollars every day as a result of having a high quantity of applications spread amongst the App Store.

On July 24, Shaikh was officially banned without advanced notice.  However Apple did send Shaikh a copyright infringement notice regarding his applications.  Shaikh submitted content to which he did not have the rights for.  Over 100 of Shaikh’s applications had some sort of infrigement violation.

Shaikh’s average cost of his applications were around $4.99.  Some of them would just be news feeds aggregated from various sources about a particular topic such as Skin Care Updates, Top Sexy Ladies: Audrina Partridge, and WWE Updates.  The Audrina Partridge application had 5 pictures of the celebrity from a website and it costed $4.99 to download.  There were hundreds of similar applications Shaikh’s company submitted with similar functionality causing outrage amongst the Apple developer community.

Brighthouse Labs is another company that is submitting tons of applications every day.  Brighthouse has over 2,000 applications on the iTunes App Store that are just as bad as Perfect Acumen.

The rejection letter sent to Shaikh is pasted below via MobileCrunch.