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Does anyone else consider this to be dishonest? Sounds like Apple should take even more control.

• hobofan 8y ago
  > Sounds like Apple should take even more control. How? In the end both Apple and Google still need to have some influx of rating to their App stores for them to function. Further reducing the ability for app creators to funnel reviewers to the App store would probably put them below that threshold.
  • logfromblammo 8y ago
    The app store itself should prompt for the reviews, on a reasonable schedule after purchase/download. Maybe 3 days after purchase for a thumbs-up, thumbs-down initial impression. Two weeks after purchase for an N/5 star review. Two months after purchase for a star rating update and descriptive text review for other potential customers. Six months after purchase, and yearly thereafter, for a star rating update and descriptive feedback aimed at the vendor, such as pain points and enhancement requests. Each time, allow the user to opt-out of review request nagging. This would also allow a chart of user satisfaction over time, filtering reviews by length of ownership, and trends in user satisfaction, especially in response to version updates. I am far more likely to trust a reviewer that has gone from a three-star rating to a five-star rating, over four years of owning the app, and has reviewed other apps from different vendors, than someone who gives it five-stars after a week, has never reviewed anything else, and then vanishes forever. One would think that the company that developed PageRank could do something similar for review rankings, to weed out review-bots, astroturfers, and straw-purchasers.