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Omnigraffle 5.01/3/2024 ![]() So the only way to actually make app development work is to get hundreds of thousands of downloads. A typical user of an ad-supported app probably makes $0.25 in a lifetime (depending on many variables). If you're using our apps, and you want us to be able to afford to continue to make such apps, your one time $1-2 payment to remove ads isn't enough to pay for development for more than a couple of minutes. You don't want those apps? Then why do you have them installed on your phone at all? Easy solution here. You want to have apps that work, and that aren't exclusively created by huge companies that can afford to get them to the top of the charts with big ad buys? Then support the developers who create them. Meaning that they really have no choice, most of the time, but to ask for reviews. ![]() And the only reason that an app developer can continue to make and support the apps you're using is that they stay near the top of the rankings. The very reason you found those apps is that they asked users to post reviews. Don't screw the developers who provide you the apps your using.Īll you're doing by using the apps that you're slamming is being a hypocrite. You want good apps to use? Even apps you pay for? Then work within the system that exists, and work to change the system. By the time you're down to 20th place, you might be making $20/month. At the top of the search you can make a decent living. Guess how much money those apps make? Not enough to pay for development. You'll find them there, because they don't rank at the top of the results. If you want the apps that don't ever ask for reviews, then search past the first 100 that show up. My problems with Apple are exactly your problems as a user. ![]() >Your problems with Apple are not my problems as a user. You're basically telling them to commit economic suicide for your minor convenience. Because if it sucked they wouldn't want to use it.ĭrop the review to 4 stars if you're annoyed by it, but know that the developers really, really have no choice. People could still rate it 1-star if it sucked. Give me a developer API to know what users rated the app how, and I'd implement that in a minute. If you rate it that low and you still use it, you're lying to other users and harming the creator of the app that you're using for free. Here's what I'd love to do: Make it so that, if you rate an app 1-star, or even 2-stars, you can't use it any more. We can either never ask for reviews and watch as 1 in 100 people EVER review our app (and THOSE reviews are skewed to the people who have a complaint, so the review average is typically crap), meaning that we barely get any downloads and can't actually make a living selling apps, or we can ask for reviews and have people complain with 1-star reviews because the app they continue using for free annoyed them once.Īnd entirely because of Apple it needs to annoy them more than once in order to stay relevant. The profound sense of entitlement that users express is really frustrating to app developers. ![]() Maybe weight recent reviews more, but don't just wipe the history for every upgrade. >What's your preferred user response to the practice of seemingly every single app begging for reviews? An actual, actionable response.Ĭomplain to Apple for having a broken system, but don't hurt the developers of the very apps you're F-ing using.Īs OP said above, Apple could fix this issue. ![]()
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