There seems to be news every day about the newly seeded firmware 2.2 for the iPhone. Yesterday it was the Google’s Street View feature, today it’s the option to rate an application when deleting it.
Recently a Greek Language website, iPhone Hellas, reported that in the new firmware version 2.2 a user is now given an application rating screen when they delete an application. After pressing the little “X” to delete an application a “Please rate before deleting” box pops up with a 5 star rating option and a “No Thanks” button.
With all the changes to the rating system to make it fair on the developers, this suggests to us that Apple is not happy with the amount of rating they are receiving at this time. We do not think that this method will accurately depict the applications worth as most people will either hit 1 star because they did not like it or just randomly select a rating just to bypass the screen. At any rate there does not seem to be any happy medium with the application rating system.
[Via iPhoneHellas]
And it seems like a nice step, as the creators must know that there app is not that good, that’s why it goes out of iPhone
“And it seems like a nice step, as the creators must know that there app is not that good, that’s why it goes out of iPhone”
Oh BS! what about the hundreds and or thousands of people who do not delete the app but not bother rating it. This new system is killing the marketplace, sales wise. Out of 1,800 sales in a month I have had 90% of the customers continue to use the app. None of them are asked to rate the app at any time, Only that 10% are asked to rate it and of course its going to be a 1 star because they dont like it. What about the 90% of the people that do like it!!
Based on my actually written reviews I have a 4.5 star app, but because of the broken rating system it’s 3-3.5 stars. I even have some 1 star written reviews and those are counted into the 4.5 star rating.
Apple needs to fix this foul up before devs start finding a way to cheat (correct) the system themselves