[hbn]

Calculator asks you to rate it in the app store...

You're the preinstalled calculator!! You don't have to compete with other apps!!

[0cf8612b2e1e]

The desperation for feedback is grating. You have a monopoly position, you know I cannot switch from this, why waste my time with this dialogue? Not like you take user opinions seriously anyway.

[lucketone]

Just an act of asking for the opinion matters.

(Maybe not for all, but definitely for some)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

[hbn]

That claims surveying workers improved their productivity at the job.

I don't think you can apply that to be interrupted with a popup while using a calculator.

[lucketone]

There probably is a second order effect - designers who have heard this, are more likely to add survey/feedback form into an app. (Even if first order effect is not real)