How could Australia possibly exist? If there were people on the other side of the “world” they would fall off head first into the sky. Duh.
Just ask the flat earthers, they’ll set you straight like they did me. I’m all learned-up now.
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Apple Pulls Reviews From Online Store Product Listings
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Just ask the flat earthers, they’ll set you straight like they did me. I’m all learned-up now.
The agenda of any big corporation needs to be reviewed every now and then but that doesn’t change the way many reviews are written. Reviews are often highly emotional and far far away from a sane middle ground. E like them for that reason too because we tend to believe emotional messages quite easily.
At the end of the day, having either no reviews, moderated reviews or not moderated reviews you will always end up with a sort of distorted reality.
Perhaps people mostly disliked what was sold in that store, otherwise, why eliminate the reviews?
Ok, Apple. Note taken.
Ok, Apple. Note taken.
You are right. However, people tend to submit reviews when they are upset with a product and are less likely to say how great a product is. This tends to skew toward a less than desirable rating. People are just negative by nature. Besides that, are you Tim's mind reader?
Have an address I can send my box of frayed and failed cables to you at?
They're all yours hoss..
That’s very kind of you to collect them in the first place!
While it's somewhat unfortunate, the reviews are absolutely disproportionate. Many happy customers don't leave a review; just the ones that complain the loudest.
The 3-star reviews usually had the balanced take, and were helpful, but it's not worth having that given the unnecessary and incorrect optics of those reviews.
The 3-star reviews usually had the balanced take, and were helpful, but it's not worth having that given the unnecessary and incorrect optics of those reviews.
That's not unique to Apple reviews and hardly a justification for removing reviews entirely.
I use a couple of extensions that analyze the reviews on amazon to try and determine which ones are fake and such based on the review history of the individual reviewers. I'm not sure how accurate they are but they'll come back with dramatically different outcomes from the same reviews because they ignore those they consider fake so I take that into consideration in addition to reading through them myself.
The tech media whiffed on this one.
The review sections on the store mostly disappeared at least two weeks ago, but nobody seemed to notice.
They then reappeared, then disappeared again.
Whether they'll return is an open question, but Apple had clearly been tinkering with store before this "breaking news" ever broke.
The review sections on the store mostly disappeared at least two weeks ago, but nobody seemed to notice.
They then reappeared, then disappeared again.
Whether they'll return is an open question, but Apple had clearly been tinkering with store before this "breaking news" ever broke.
People are more quick to post a bad review vs a good review. I take all reviews with a grain of salt. Theyre sooo important on Amazon though. For example, I bought 2 products and both were garbage....gave them both 1 star reviews with a detailed and truthful review. Both companies reached out to me and gave me a free item to replace it (and having me keep the original) if I edited my review and gave them good feedback. Shady.
Based on some of these sites. The level of crap reviews by non buyers is likely high. Is there a method in place making actual buyers only able to leave reviews?
Personally I think when a company allows criticism of their products to be posted on their own website it speaks well of them.
If you ever read the unhelpful dumpster fire that was the reviews section you can understand why. The only helpful reviews were the few people that actually pointed out particular flaws on mostly third party products. Maybe if the reviews had some sort of verification this would work again.
it would be hilarious if they only removed ratings from their own products, but kept it for all third party ones)
I think Amazon states the review is from a confirmed purchaser if you buy the item from them.
On the other hand I’m not that naive to expect journalistic integrity when reading reviews directly on the website of the manufacturer. And that goes for any company.
They should limit reviews to verified purchases through the Apple Store (assuming they weren't doing that already) - that would fix it. Personally, I'd rather know the reviewer had actually purchased the product they reviewed, I generally ignore unverified purchase reviews in Amazon
How many companies let people review their products on their own store without curating the reviews? Apple could be like, Razer for instance, and remove everything but the 5 star reviews.
Apple cables do not like constant sunlight and dryness. I have had maybe 50+ lightning cables and have seen at least 5 of them fail because they lived in my cars.
the apple support forum is the most useless website on the internet
So that clearly means that it is impossible that anyone else in the country, or the world for that matter, would have a problem with an Apple cable. Come on! Really? You cannot be that naive.
Too many abuses in the reviews today across every aspect of sales. Once upon a time, reviews had a good deal of credibility. Today, so many are manufactured with little or no respect for accuracy. Thus, why bother. Good move Apple. Netflix did the same thing a couple years back. The no review trend will continue.
This may be unrelated but I noticed that my apps have been getting a ton of 5-star review spam on the App Store lately. People are leaving advertising/spam messages in the reviews multiple times per day and there's no way for me to delete them. Maybe Apple was having similar problems with the Apple Store?