Yeah I can confirm your observations. For some reason, the attitudes towards (free?) apps has changed quite a bit. Old days: three-four-five star ratings Last few months: Complainers mostly, with no constructive feedback It's pretty obvious when I look at the trail since first release a year ago. All for the same stinkin' app that even has gotten better over time.
On May 4, 8:32 am, Totalgeek <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2 cents on what I expierenced so far on the Android market. Just > wondering if anyone has advice or opinions on the topic. > > How do you guys deal with ratings on applications, especially free > ones? I don't understand why people would give an app 1 star when the > application runs fine but they feel features aren't up to par. I would > agree with 2-3 stars but 1? I would give 1 to apps that crash not run > without features you feel are necessary. How do you entice the people > who are enjoying it to post a rating? Just like tangible good items > you only hear from people who have had a bad expierence I want to make > it better but can't without feedback. I all for fair constructive > criticism, if I deserve 1 star then great let me know why and i'll fix > it, or look into why it has to work the way it works. People will > either rate 1 or 5 and nothing in between, and most of the time you > only get a rating during 'uninstall' and if its within hours of > install its usually a 1. > > The problem with low rating is that visiblity drops on the app. There > is no way to make something better if people don't use it and leave > constructive criticism. What's troubling is I've written 3 apps to the > 1 app I wrote for the Iphone, that doesn't serve any usefulness like > the 3 I wrote on Android, it was a 'test' app. But based on ad > requests data it gets used a lot more then any of the apps I've > written on the Android. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
