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Or maybe it's biased by the "prompt user to rate when deleting it", like the article says. If you delete it, you probably don't like it very much - and you sele

by m_eiman 17y ago

Or maybe it's biased by the "prompt user to rate when deleting it", like the article says. If you delete it, you probably don't like it very much - and you select the most extreme "don't like" option presented. And I say "maybe", because we need more experiments to see what the causes really are. I think that the "ask to rate after using it for a while" is superior to only asking when deleting, but of course you should have both to get the opinions of both satisfied and dissatisfied users.

stcredzero 17y ago
Or maybe it's biased by the "prompt user to rate when deleting it" I delete a lot of apps, simply because I find I no longer use them. I don't even bother to rate them. I'm certainly not motivated to vote 1-star on them. Yes, I did read the article. I've also read a lot of the reviews on the App store. Often, the bad reviews just smell fishy to me. My assumption is that there aren't really so many more somewhat dim pig-headed users who like to vote 1-star on the App Store than there are on Amazon. Both of those "sites" are aimed at the general public. Maybe there are the same number, and Amazon has developed better moderation?