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As an iPhone/iPad developer, the thing that pisses me off the most is when users leave a low rating and say "when you implement <feature no one cares about> I'l

As an iPhone/iPad developer, the thing that pisses me off the most is when users leave a low rating and say "when you implement <feature no one cares about> I'll move it up to 5 stars." This happens all the time. It's blackmail but on a tiny scale, but it does have a real, negative impact. Just because an app receives some low ratings it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad app or the developer is an idiot. Sometimes users leave bad ratings just because they can.

PStamatiou 16y ago
Yikes - reading this on my iPhone and accidentally tapped tiny downvote arrow instead of tiny upvote arrow. Can someone upvote Mike for me? Thank you.
- flyosity 16y ago
  Thanks Paul, it's upvoted in my mind :)
mykoleary 16y ago
If your app is missing a feature, it is less useful and thus deserves less stars. If it has more features, it is better and deserves more. This is another developer entitlement issue. Users aren't going to give you five stars because your one feature works really super well even though you have five missing features that don't work at all. Your app can and should be ranked against other apps that are more fully featured and usable. If you aren't on the upper side of the curve quit spending time complaining about it and spend some more time learning and using that to code your app to be better.
- flyosity 16y ago
  "If it has more features, it is better and deserves more." Perhaps you're not a mobile developer. Mobile apps are about focused user experiences. Tight features that make sense within the context of the app. You wouldn't drop a crossword puzzle into an RSS reader app (even though newspapers have crossword puzzles... yes I had a user suggest this for my iPad newspaper app). When users suggest a feature that should be there and it's not, that's fantastic, that's a totally different thing. I'm talking about unrelated, ridiculous requests that make no sense, or they make sense to 1 person in the entire world: the reviewer.

PStamatiou 16y ago

Yikes - reading this on my iPhone and accidentally tapped tiny downvote arrow instead of tiny upvote arrow. Can someone upvote Mike for me? Thank you.

flyosity 16y ago
Thanks Paul, it's upvoted in my mind :)

mykoleary 16y ago

If your app is missing a feature, it is less useful and thus deserves less stars. If it has more features, it is better and deserves more. This is another developer entitlement issue. Users aren't going to give you five stars because your one feature works really super well even though you have five missing features that don't work at all. Your app can and should be ranked against other apps that are more fully featured and usable. If you aren't on the upper side of the curve quit spending time complaining about it and spend some more time learning and using that to code your app to be better.

flyosity 16y ago
"If it has more features, it is better and deserves more." Perhaps you're not a mobile developer. Mobile apps are about focused user experiences. Tight features that make sense within the context of the app. You wouldn't drop a crossword puzzle into an RSS reader app (even though newspapers have crossword puzzles... yes I had a user suggest this for my iPad newspaper app). When users suggest a feature that should be there and it's not, that's fantastic, that's a totally different thing. I'm talking about unrelated, ridiculous requests that make no sense, or they make sense to 1 person in the entire world: the reviewer.