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Another thing why I hate app stores is that they have ratings and reviews. While a good idea in theory, in practice they're meaningless. But because the rating
by grishka 3y ago
Another thing why I hate app stores is that they have ratings and reviews. While a good idea in theory, in practice they're meaningless. But because the rating is an "important" metric, app developers do so much to inflate it. All those annoying, incessant popups to "rate your experience", that, if you give 5 starts, would plead you to also rate the app in the store. As an Android app developer, I also have complaints about this — people would sometimes leave negative reviews because of something your app is not related to. Like "I used this app and my account got hacked", on the official app for the service that hosts the account in question.
And another tangential issue is how search in Google Play is a ridiculous mess lately. It would show you WhatsApp and some other popular apps for literally any search query, while not finding the app you're actually looking for, even if you enter its exact name.
- doruk101 3y ago> And another tangential issue is how search in Google Play is a ridiculous mess lately. It would show you WhatsApp and some other popular apps for literally any search query, while not finding the app you're actually looking for, even if you enter its exact name. I think this applies to any Google product's search these days. As a company that started with a business in search, it is quite ironic.
- donatj 3y agoAn app I wrote has a single written review complaining about how it can’t read data from another app. I have no way to read data from that app, that’s not a thing I can do.
- viraptor 3y ago> All those annoying, incessant popups to "rate your experience", To be fair this is also a behaviour the stores could regulate. (If they cared at all...)