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Not only do we have the web, we have app stores with public reviews! In addition to easily learning about the competition, we get to learn what their customers
by enos_feedler 5y ago
Not only do we have the web, we have app stores with public reviews! In addition to easily learning about the competition, we get to learn what their customers think of their own features. Pretty magical!
- ghaff 5y agoI'm coming at this more from a B2B perspective. Certainly there were computer mag reviews of products and I'm honestly somewhat split on the transition from "expert" and theoretically unbiased reviews to a much more heavily crowdsourced set of reviewers. Not sure I'd call modern online crowdsourced reviews "magical."
- enos_feedler 5y agoMag reviews are definitely not the same thing as user reviews which are prompted during usage. If anything, expert reviews are useless.
- ghaff 5y agoWhen magazine reviews were something that was a seriously paid occupation they were often pretty good. The problem today is that they're often essentially algorithmic. Reviews in e.g. the New York Times review of books insert were generally better than random Amazon reviewers (though not always).