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No upgrades is a lamentable omission, but subscriptions and IAP can help replace it (not as well tho). Protecting purchasers privacy is a great customer benefi

No upgrades is a lamentable omission, but subscriptions and IAP can help replace it (not as well tho). Protecting purchasers privacy is a great customer benefit, which also helps increase developer sales. For example, App Store customers never have to worry about being spammed by some developer they bought an app from. You can still find out who is using your apps, just ask them within the app. They may not tell you, but again that’s a happy customers right.

dylan604 6y ago
>For example, App Store customers never have to worry about being spammed by some developer they bought an app from. If only Amazon was like this. I get inundated with emails from sellers on AMZN asking/suggesting/begging for me to review their product. This continues for months after purchase. >You can still find out who is using your apps, just ask them within the app. This is also annoying AF. "Please rate our app on the app store" right the middle of me trying to do something. If they timed it for right at launch before starting anything, maybe I'd be less irritated, but probably not. Trust me, my talking to my acquaintances carries a lot more weight than a review from some random person on the internet. I blame the review gaming system from Amazon/Yelp type of places that make reviews an no-go for me.
- true_religion 6y ago
  The rating system is different from app registration. You can ask people for their email, name, etc. within the App itself without simultaneously begging for ratings on the app store. App registration is what people used to do in the era of shrink-wrap software, bought in brick and mortar stores.
- bredren 6y ago
  It is possible to buy highly targeted personal data as a seller on Amazon marketplace. You buy generic of a well-sold product id and sell it at a discount. Your inventory goes to the top of the stack and sells through. You get the full name address and contact info of everyone interested. This can be combined with data broker info to assemble galaxies around these individuals who can then be remarketed to in uncountable ways. This is against the terms of service of course, but so was keeping Facebook user profile data of people who installed your apps back in the day. There’s no way to police the behavior and it’s open season. You can do this on just about any product and if you go into weird niches you can find very particular types of folks.
- armadsen 6y ago
  The standard review prompt is actually presented by an Apple API, and it's designed so that developers only have some control over the details of its presentation. Basically you request it whenever you think it's appropriate, but the system decides whether it actually gets displayed. Unfortunately, without asking for reviews, an app won't get many, and reviews on the app store make a way bigger difference to sales than you'd think. Most developers I know don't want to nag people for a review, but incentives are such that it's important to their bottom line to do so. The good news is that they can be disabled altogether for apps using the system API. Open the Mac App Store app, go to Preferences, and there's an "In-App Ratings & Reviews" box you can uncheck. There's a similar option on iOS somewhere too.

dylan604 6y ago

>For example, App Store customers never have to worry about being spammed by some developer they bought an app from. If only Amazon was like this. I get inundated with emails from sellers on AMZN asking/suggesting/begging for me to review their product. This continues for months after purchase. >You can still find out who is using your apps, just ask them within the app. This is also annoying AF. "Please rate our app on the app store" right the middle of me trying to do something. If they timed it for right at launch before starting anything, maybe I'd be less irritated, but probably not. Trust me, my talking to my acquaintances carries a lot more weight than a review from some random person on the internet. I blame the review gaming system from Amazon/Yelp type of places that make reviews an no-go for me.

true_religion 6y ago
The rating system is different from app registration. You can ask people for their email, name, etc. within the App itself without simultaneously begging for ratings on the app store. App registration is what people used to do in the era of shrink-wrap software, bought in brick and mortar stores.
bredren 6y ago
It is possible to buy highly targeted personal data as a seller on Amazon marketplace. You buy generic of a well-sold product id and sell it at a discount. Your inventory goes to the top of the stack and sells through. You get the full name address and contact info of everyone interested. This can be combined with data broker info to assemble galaxies around these individuals who can then be remarketed to in uncountable ways. This is against the terms of service of course, but so was keeping Facebook user profile data of people who installed your apps back in the day. There’s no way to police the behavior and it’s open season. You can do this on just about any product and if you go into weird niches you can find very particular types of folks.
armadsen 6y ago
The standard review prompt is actually presented by an Apple API, and it's designed so that developers only have some control over the details of its presentation. Basically you request it whenever you think it's appropriate, but the system decides whether it actually gets displayed. Unfortunately, without asking for reviews, an app won't get many, and reviews on the app store make a way bigger difference to sales than you'd think. Most developers I know don't want to nag people for a review, but incentives are such that it's important to their bottom line to do so. The good news is that they can be disabled altogether for apps using the system API. Open the Mac App Store app, go to Preferences, and there's an "In-App Ratings & Reviews" box you can uncheck. There's a similar option on iOS somewhere too.