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by dkdcio 168 days ago
maybe I’m just getting old, but I’m really tired of these [super popular product tons of people use but EVERYONE hates it] posts and comments. just quickly checking the Apple App Store, the Onedrive app has 4.7 stars

does everyone hate it?
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tehwebguy 168 days ago
Better question: who the hell is giving these apps (or really any apps) five stars?

I don’t rate the apps I use unless other than to give it 1 star for doing something I hate. My banking app’s transaction search doesn’t work at all, so it gets 1 star. But 1.9M ratings resulted in a 5 star average — who are the freaks giving their banking app 5 stars and why?

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dkdcio 168 days ago
looks like about 400,000 people for Onedrive rating 5 stars

looks like millions for my banking app (Chase) rating 5 stars

do you really not understand why people might do things different from you?

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timbit42 168 days ago
After seeing almost everything on Amazon rated about 4.4 out of 5, seeing OneDrive rated a 5 looks like rating manipulation.
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dkdcio 168 days ago
sure, it’s all fake data, nothing’s real, everyone hates these very well-used and well-rated products. ya got me

hundreds of thousands and millions of fake reviews. it’s all manipulation!

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debugnik 168 days ago
The kind of people willing to leave stars on an app store are already a biased sample.
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dymk 168 days ago
Yeah, for lower ratings. People leave reviews because they’re pissed, not mildly happy.
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gcr 168 days ago
On iOS at least, an app can quickly ask for a star rating via a modal dialog. No review necessary.

Thanks to dark patterns, users sometimes think it's asking them to rate their previous experience, or the podcast they're listening to, but those wind up tallied as app star ratings.

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nebezb 168 days ago
How does this translate to apps with low ratings, or something in the middle?
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blizdiddy 168 days ago
Mcafee for iPhone has 5 stars. iBeer has 5 stars. Every app in a search of “DMV” has five stars. Every “gpt” ai clone app has 5 stars.
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AlexandrB 168 days ago
No doubt there's a lot of review spam as well. Apple has also gotten lazy with cracking down on review dark patterns. I noticed apps are getting away with the "pop up review dialog -> positive: go to OS level review window -> negative: go to in-app feedback form" pattern.
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mcpar-land 168 days ago
onedrive app doesn't come preinstalled on your phone, or aggressively try to trick you into using it.
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