[bradknowles]

If they're going to have a web landing page at all, then it needs to tell you more than just giving you a link to the App Store and nothing else. At that point, it's just a pure waste of time. They shouldn't have bothered to build a web page at all, if that's what they were going to do with it.

[1123581321]

It said quite a bit besides the links on the page.

[bradknowles]

I saw very little text. I saw some graphics where someone clearly spent some time to make some small sprites move around a bit to catch your eye, and links to open the App Store, and that's it.

If they're showing real text explanation of what the app is and what it does and why you might want to trust CR to allow them to do that for you, then they certainly didn't show any part of that on the web page I saw.

The web page I saw was basically useless. They would have been better off just making it a redirect to the actual App Store page.

[1123581321]

I doubt you’d have been happy with anything they could have said. I tried downloading the app just now, and it didn’t do anything that surprised me based on what the landing page had described (with words in addition to images.) This isn’t a service I need, but the basic functionality and relationship to Consumer Reports was successfully communicated.

[bradknowles]

Including the text of the press release from CR, or even just a link to that press release would have been enough to at least get me to try the app.

But their landing page as I saw it was basically useless.

So, you're not the author are you? If so, then why would you hide your identity here?

[1123581321]

No, and I’ve no relation to Consumer Reports. I’m not surprised you went for some weird attack there, sadly, after trying to find something wrong with a bog standard app explanation page.

[bradknowles]

But there was no explanation actually shown there. So there is no valid claim of a standard app explanation page.

Perhaps you saw a different page than I did, but there was nothing on the page that I saw that explained anything about the app itself or what it was supposed to do.

And there's nothing strange about asking someone if they happen to be the author when they are acting like a shill. When I am presented with a spade, I tend to call it a spade.