Nice article. I agree that an honest request for rating should not be hated - provided it's after some time of real use of application, and it has a permanent d

Nice article. I agree that an honest request for rating should not be hated - provided it's after some time of real use of application, and it has a permanent dismissal option. Also, from your article it shows that there are some fundamental problems with the way Apple's App Store works. Have you tried developing for Android? From what I know, it doesn't suffer from the problems you have shown there - 1) The ratings shown are always for all versions. 2) Developers can respond to reviewers and their reviews, and also contact them through their Google+ profiles. 3) (Google) Play Store has a refund window of 15 minutes in which the payments are refunded directly from them, so that you don't have to give money from your own pockets to do that (after 15 minutes I think it's the same way, they have to contact the developer) That said, it's been observed that on Google Play store generally people don't like buying costly apps. You'd have to think for a way out.