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Do it for my apps on the App Store too, Apple.
by LeicaLatte 7y ago
Do it for my apps on the App Store too, Apple.
- par 7y agoAgreed. Convenient for Apple to absolve themselves of these things, but when my app gets a bunch of hateful reviews simply because the user doesn't want to pay, or provide an email, Apple lets all that stand.
- saagarjha 7y agoYou can flag irrelevant reviews.
- fdsa_8866 7y agoIf you think that process is fair or efficient I'd say you've never tried it. It's a half-measure meant to appease developers. In practice it's nearly worthless.
- twobat 7y agoOn the other side, as an user, I install some apps on my phone and the ones with bad reviews really deserve it. Poor Android ports, crap interface that didn't improve in 5 years and so on.
- fdsa_8866 7y agoCame here to say that. Unless you're bringing an already popular product into the store or have a large marketing budget, you're really at the mercy of the handful of people who seem to live to give bad reviews. It's even worse for a free product, which suggests that it's a % of people who have nothing better to do. So, you either try to push through it or buy reviews -- and risk getting kicked out of the store entirely. Reviews are 33% of the reason I shut down my app biz. (And then 33% dealing with the college dropouts in the review department and 33% for taking 33% for making my job harder than it would be without their help.) Cutting out reviews would be helpful for probably everyone but the top 1%. It would certainly make it less of a shit show for most developers.
- twobat 7y agoHow would a large marketing budget solve the issue with the people that "live to give bad reviews"?