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Apple appears to be manipulating its own App Store ratings
- WalterGR 5y agoRelevant excerpt: "...How can you salvage your reputation? Apple just found one incredibly effective way — get listeners to submit better reviews by interrupting their podcast experience with an in-app prompt to submit a rating. That’s how the Apple Podcasts app went from a publicly embarrassing 1.8-star score all the way to 4.6 stars in a little over a month without any actual fixes..."
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoOne more dark pattern in our lives.
- keleftheriou 5y ago> [Apple] is using the same broken star score system that uplifts scammers for its own benefit as well. And it’s a crystal clear example of why you can’t trust star scores
- smoldesu 5y agoI thought the App Store was designed explicitly to prevent people from gaming numbers... What gives, Apple?
- tennien 5y agoWhy do people still care about the App Store ecosystem? Apple has made it profitable only for mobile games. Since 2015, 99% of large successful companies have started on web.
- beezischillin 5y agoI mean if the goal was to hide bad reviews they could've done so already like they did when Robinhood pissed its users off. There has to be more to this than just wanting to improve the score of a built in app.
- _gllen 5y ago> I wondered if maybe this was a common confusion with podcast apps, where listeners think they’re reviewing a podcast instead of the app itself. But no, I didn’t see that obvious pattern when I checked reviews for other top podcast apps in the App Store. The rating popup is “enjoying {appname}” .. seems understandable considering this app name is “podcasts”