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You can only get so far with a blog post. Have you filed a radar yet? I just did (rdar://9598285). Here's the text you can copy and paste (make sure you mention
by martingordon 15y ago
You can only get so far with a blog post. Have you filed a radar yet? I just did (rdar://9598285). Here's the text you can copy and paste (make sure you mention it's a dupe of 9598285).
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Title: Users leave bad reviews for app that don't work on beta OS releases
Summary:
The point of the prereleases is to give developers time to modify their apps to address any compatibility issues (as well as add new features) before the public release of the operating system. Despite Apple's best intentions at keeping OS betas limited to developers, the fact of the matter remains that average users can and do get their hands on prerelease software. This leads many non-savvy users running applications not meant for the new release and often leave negative reviews on the App Store because the app is incompatible with the new OS.
For example, see this blog post: http://mbarclay.net/?p=1317 http://mbarclay.net/?p=1317
One potential solution to this is to disallow app reviews for users running unreleased OSes. Another is to tighten up the developer program so that each subsequent beta release allows more and more devices to receive installs. With the current 100 devices per account right off the bat, there is widespread abuse of access to prerelease software.
- masklinn 15y ago> One potential solution to this is to disallow app reviews for users running unreleased OSes. That would only work for on-device reviews, but those users can always leave reviews through iTunes.
- martingordon 15y agoI think it would be a larger engineering effort to totally block it out, but blocking it on the device would at least preventing "heat of the moment" reviews. Luckily, most of the larger OS updates also required a new version of iTunes, so they could block it for beta releases of iTunes also.
- mahyarm 15y agoFor all itunes accounts who have a beta ios install associated with them, they cannot post reviews until a certain expiry date. Developers would not really mind the trade off and it provides a small disincentive for non developers to not install pre release versions.
- panacea 15y agoIs your age associated with credit card / itunes accounts? I'd love to be able to filter reviews by age groups (ie. over 25 only)