Man, look at all those one-star reviews for Angry Brids. "My device doesn't have enough space for this app!" "Amazon won't refund my money for some book I bought!" "AT&T doesn't allow side-loading!"
How does any of this relate to the actual app? Someone should be reading these reviews and deleting them, because developers don't want reviews that have nothing to do with ther app making their 5-star app a 3-star app.
Remind me to never give anyone anything for free. They will just whine about it. Better to charge them $10,000 for the app, then charge them for a $500/hour consultant to work around the bugs. They'll whine about it, but then I would be able to afford enough alcohol to not care.
(And no, I have no Android apps. But I just can't get excited about writing one when I see how dumb the average user is.)
The Android Market has a similar problem. There is such a large proportion of reviews that are complaints about failed downloads, scare tactics from competitors ("This app installs malware!"), and feature requests ("3 stars. I'll give you four stars once you implement feature X") that it makes me wonder if people with close to 5-star ratings are just buying ratings from farms of people somehow.
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Man, look at all those one-star reviews for Angry Brids. "My device doesn't have enough space for this app!" "Amazon won't refund my money for some book I bought!" "AT&T doesn't allow side-loading!"
How does any of this relate to the actual app? Someone should be reading these reviews and deleting them, because developers don't want reviews that have nothing to do with ther app making their 5-star app a 3-star app.
Remind me to never give anyone anything for free. They will just whine about it. Better to charge them $10,000 for the app, then charge them for a $500/hour consultant to work around the bugs. They'll whine about it, but then I would be able to afford enough alcohol to not care.
(And no, I have no Android apps. But I just can't get excited about writing one when I see how dumb the average user is.)
The Android Market has a similar problem. There is such a large proportion of reviews that are complaints about failed downloads, scare tactics from competitors ("This app installs malware!"), and feature requests ("3 stars. I'll give you four stars once you implement feature X") that it makes me wonder if people with close to 5-star ratings are just buying ratings from farms of people somehow.