Or, if you'd prefer, the top five stories currently dominating our readers' attention.
Each week, we'll be counting down the biggest news from the previous seven days, giving just a glimpse of the industry's big issues, from five to one.
Change to App Store submission process hints at retina display equipped iPad 3
The only shock will be if iPad 3 doesn't sport a retina resolution screen, given the number of leaks about the as-yet announced device.
The latest rumour, however, is sparked by an official statement from Apple concerning a change to its App Store submission process.
"When you create or update your apps in iTunes Connect, you must upload screenshots that are high resolution.
"We require your screenshots as high resolution images so that your app is optimised for retina display," the company points out, suggesting it will soon be the standard resolution across all its devices.
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App Store bot farms are mobile's 'dirty little secret', earning perpetrators upwards of $50,000 a day claims iOS developer
The first of last week's big stories about dodgy goings-on on the App Store came following breaking news about alleged bot farms driving free iOS game downloads.
One developer told us that it mistakenly used such as company, which for the price of $5,000 boosted its game into the US top 25 free game chart.
Combined over multiple clients - and a recent price hike of $12,000 - this suggests the operation could be generating as much as $50,000 daily.
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Alleged 'bot farm' TopDealApps uses 200,000 US iTunes accounts to boost app rankings
Following up on news that some app promotion services are alleged to be using bot farms to boost free game chart positions on the US App Store, we spoke to one such service TopDealApps.
Its founder, Wang Tilan, denied using automatic methods such as bot farms: instead, he said he had a network of 200,000 US iTunes account holders who he could get to downloads apps for his clients.
More surprising, however, was the revelation that TopDealApps had the log in details for those iTunes accounts.
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Developer claims unnamed company offering guaranteed top 25 App Store spots for $5,000
The story that started the whole farm bot issue was a post on Touch Arcade's forum, claiming that an unnamed company is offering developers a guaranteed route into the US top 25 App Store's free charts for $5,000.
Others made similar claims, although CrowdStar - which had been accused of the practise - hit back, with co-founder Suren Markosian revealing it spent hundreds of thousands. if not millions, of dollars promoting its games via legitimate channels such as Flurry, Chartboost and iAd.
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Apple offers official warning to App Store 'manipulators'
As with many issues affecting the App Store, there's not been any prolonged communication from Apple about Clonegate, bot farms or iTunes scammers.
However, in a short statement, it has now pointed out that services which guaranteed chart position are to be avoided.
"Even if you are not personally engaged in manipulating App Store chart rankings or user reviews, employing services that do so on your behalf may result in the loss of your Apple Developer Program membership," says a post on its developer website.
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