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How is this functionality different than an app asking you to review it after using it? The app “knows” your using it and prompts you to contribute to crowd sou
by cromwellian 9y ago
How is this functionality different than an app asking you to review it after using it? The app “knows” your using it and prompts you to contribute to crowd sourced app reviews in the App Store. Apple likely knows what apps you have run unless you disable all diagnostics and lots of apps phone home.
In this case, geo fencing is prompting you to review a location instead of an app.
I think people rely on a lot more crowdsourced information, much of it from nagging or campaigning, than they realize and would be sad if it didn’t exist. Waze has saved my bacon many times. Google Maps’s knowledge of near real time bussiness congestion or closures has stopped me from wasting an hour driving somewhere only to find out it’s closed or all full.
On the health front we could probably save millions of lives from disease if more anonymized health records were available to researchers for application of machine learning to medical histories or prediction of complications. So much good could be done in the world.
- megaman22 9y agoI've made it a policy that if an app pops up unsolicited modals to badger me about rating it, it automatically gets a 0-start review. That pattern needs to die in a fire.