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So because -company- does illegal thing and people respond by using whatever means they have Google should silence the masses of disaffected users just because
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
So because -company- does illegal thing and people respond by using whatever means they have Google should silence the masses of disaffected users just because some people changed their rating? That is some grade a:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
- yuliyp 6y agoA rating is not a thing that an app deserves. It's a datapoint published by an app store to help its users make decisions about which apps to use.
- recursive 6y agoThe one thing does not exclude the other.
- afiori 6y agoit similar to how hacker news penalizes submission that rally for upvotes (specifically I remember a discussion about how posting links of your submission to twitter can penalize it)
- yuliyp 6y agoGoogle doesn't care whether Robinhood succeeds or not. It cares whether people trust the Play Store ratings (and more broadly, trust the Play Store itself). They'll do what's needed to achieve their goals, not Robinhood.
- ttt0 6y agoAs a user, I'd like to make sure that a trading app won't deny me the opportunity to actually make decent money.