I’m sure they will ignore customer opinions regardless so reviews don’t really do anything, whether those are mostly positive or negative comments.
And satisfy customer is indeed less likely
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And satisfy customer is indeed less likely
My first review of an Apple app was... Podcasts. I gave it two stars. My first impulse was to give it one. I guess Tim Cook doesn't use Apple's Podcast app, otherwise, the various issues would have been fixed by now.
The app doesn't work. I can’t remove a podcast from my listen now queue without marking it as played. Something so simple and it’s nowhere to be found. The app is garbage.
I don't understand the hatred for the Apple Podcasts app.
It's a first-class first party app experience from launch to play.
It's backed by the biggest and best library of podcasts.
It's privacy-focused.
There is a delightful hand-crafted selection of podcasts to dive into everyday. My fascination and curiosity is never left wanting.
It's a first-class first party app experience from launch to play.
It's backed by the biggest and best library of podcasts.
It's privacy-focused.
There is a delightful hand-crafted selection of podcasts to dive into everyday. My fascination and curiosity is never left wanting.
Some reviewers are never fair or balanced. It's either Great or total garbage. Happens on IMDB all the time. My favorites tho are on Amazon. "Great product, works just as described and would definately buy aagin.. but the box was slightly dented during shipping. 1 star"
Gosh the last thing I would want if I were Apple is allowing people to type up reviews for Apple made apps. Especially for iOS 15.
Where can I rate & review iOS 15? Wait, I didn’t install it because of the predicable clocked and crashing this software is emulating I am seeing just scrolling down MR news this morning while drinking my coffee = 👎
For example, it’s slower than competitors and there’s still the 15 seconds bug.
So you are saying because you are comparing it to another badly designed app that people should increase their rating. nope, let them both suffer from bad reviews it’s the only way they could fix things.
Apple ruined it when it became an advertising platform for their music service. At one time it was just a simple music player for music stored on your phone. I stopped using it shortly after they made that change.
I just opened it for the first time in God know how long. To remember what I didn't like. It didn't fail to fulfill that objective. By opening straight to browse showing a bunch of stuff which isn't music stored on my phone. Ads to try Apple Music now. A pop up advertising spatial audio. Plus most of the UI dedicated to the Apple Music service.
While it's fine if they want a music service. They should have kept a regular annoyance free music player. Perhaps as an optional download from the app store. It's not like it would need much upkeep. Just enough to keep it functioning reliably with each iOS update. Plus compatibility updates for any new audio format they start selling like Spatial Audio.
Listen Now is podcasts for you to play. If you don’t want any to be there just mark those as played and they will disappear. Seems to work as expected.
I don't want to mark it as played if I didn't play it. Every podcast I subscribe too shows up there when there is a new episode. I don't have any interest in listening to every episode of NY Times "The Daily" for example. If an episode doesn't interest me, I want to be able to remove it. Like I could before this stupid update.
This.
On top of that, it doesn't even sync properly across devices. I have three devices with the Podcasts app installed, all with the same settings, and yet they never agree on what's been played or where abouts I am on a particular podcast. The whole app is a joke.
Yup, syncing across devices is also very broken. My Apple Watch, iPhone, and HomePod rarely sync progress correctly.
The important thing to know is that Apple has Full Control of the Ratings Dialog.
If they want their apps to get Rated & Reviewed, they can make it happen.
Third-party apps have NO such control.
If Apple doesn't want a certain app to get Rated, it won't !
And, very-importantly, Apple provides NO feedback to App Developers on Ratings "Requests" !
In other words, the Ratings Dialog is just another way that Apple has of suppressing ANY app they want to, with NO transparency !
I'm pushing for Congress to change this !
If they want their apps to get Rated & Reviewed, they can make it happen.
Third-party apps have NO such control.
If Apple doesn't want a certain app to get Rated, it won't !
And, very-importantly, Apple provides NO feedback to App Developers on Ratings "Requests" !
In other words, the Ratings Dialog is just another way that Apple has of suppressing ANY app they want to, with NO transparency !
I'm pushing for Congress to change this !
I’m confused by the hate for the podcast app, but I guess it’s good enough for me. I can find the podcasts I like and they play in order having to set up a queue. (Well some of them do) I’d probably give it a 3.5 (round up to 4)
I’d give stocks a 5/5. Not sure what else people want from it
I’d give stocks a 5/5. Not sure what else people want from it
Yes... expecting a lot of race-to-the-bottom juvenile outrage to help let people feel better about themselves with that little blip of power.
Money drives everything - technology - competition - advertising - updates - not a complaint, just reality.
Still fun to complain though. If I really cared. I'd have found a dedicated music player app. I just couldn't be bothered and moved exclusively to Spotify years ago. As I like their streaming interface a lot more. My huge iTunes library just languishes unused.