Petition!!! Need everyones voice on this!!
I'm not the only one I'm sure but the user review process is a joke on apps.
I've been victim to this and also the end users himself.
How do we give a good review to an app? we log into itunes, find the app again, click through to the review page, then leave a rating or a review.
How do we leave a bad review or rating? We delete the app and it prompts us with the option to rate it.
Now the major problem with this is that if you're deleting the app, the chances are its because its crap, you don't like it, or something negative!! So answer this Apple, why would I delete something I like to use?! so i'm noticing that a lot of bad ratings are superseding good reviews because of this process.
I hardly know anyone that will go through the whole process to leave a good rating on an app, people don't care unless its made easy for them, and in my opinion its not easy to leave a good review or rating. and its far far too easy to leave a bad rating because we're prompted on delete!
I think this has to change, and it needs to change now! I suggest that once you've downloaded an app and opened it for the 3rd time, maybe even the 5th time you click it to play it it pops up saying do you want to rate this app???
If they say no, fine, but at least apple would be giving the customers who play and love our apps a chance to give us a fair rating!
Something like that, or maybe something similar, I don't think that is annoying to the customer. If they like your product then why not let others know about it without having to actually think to themselves "I like this app, think I'll go rate it" people don't work like that, people just want to do they're own thing and you can see that majority of apps these days have medium ratings, very rare is there a constant high rating on an app... simply because you can't make everyone happy and thats fine, some people hate the best games in the world cos its not "their thing" but why is it not as easy to rate a product that you keep rather than delete because its a pile of crap!
So please, everyone start commenting to support this move, I am going to put this out on developer forums and get as much of a petition going that maybe apple will listen. They've done it before and I think its only fair to listen to us all. We all work too hard to let our hard work go to waste at the hands of the few that delete and badly rate our apps and the people who like it who just don't care enough to leave us some higher star ratings.
I've been victim to this and also the end users himself.
How do we give a good review to an app? we log into itunes, find the app again, click through to the review page, then leave a rating or a review.
How do we leave a bad review or rating? We delete the app and it prompts us with the option to rate it.
Now the major problem with this is that if you're deleting the app, the chances are its because its crap, you don't like it, or something negative!! So answer this Apple, why would I delete something I like to use?! so i'm noticing that a lot of bad ratings are superseding good reviews because of this process.
I hardly know anyone that will go through the whole process to leave a good rating on an app, people don't care unless its made easy for them, and in my opinion its not easy to leave a good review or rating. and its far far too easy to leave a bad rating because we're prompted on delete!
I think this has to change, and it needs to change now! I suggest that once you've downloaded an app and opened it for the 3rd time, maybe even the 5th time you click it to play it it pops up saying do you want to rate this app???
If they say no, fine, but at least apple would be giving the customers who play and love our apps a chance to give us a fair rating!
Something like that, or maybe something similar, I don't think that is annoying to the customer. If they like your product then why not let others know about it without having to actually think to themselves "I like this app, think I'll go rate it" people don't work like that, people just want to do they're own thing and you can see that majority of apps these days have medium ratings, very rare is there a constant high rating on an app... simply because you can't make everyone happy and thats fine, some people hate the best games in the world cos its not "their thing" but why is it not as easy to rate a product that you keep rather than delete because its a pile of crap!
So please, everyone start commenting to support this move, I am going to put this out on developer forums and get as much of a petition going that maybe apple will listen. They've done it before and I think its only fair to listen to us all. We all work too hard to let our hard work go to waste at the hands of the few that delete and badly rate our apps and the people who like it who just don't care enough to leave us some higher star ratings.
Comments
we work hard on our apps and our effort is binned.
there are more chances of a person deleting the application and giving a low rating rather than go on itunes rate and comment it!
what they should do is after you open and close the app 5-6 times they are prompted to leave a review/rating.
... good speech
the problem is when 10 people who dislike it and delete the app, rating it (maybe also without knowing what it is or what they are doing).
i doubt apple will listen to us anyway
I hate bumping.
But also, I got finger physics today! genius wee game, but after a while of playing it.
I got a pop up alert! saying "Would you like to rate this game?" (yes or no)
Clicked yes and it went to the review page on itunes. Ideal!!!
I take it the developers done this themself? it would be a nice feature to add to our games in my opinion.