Re:Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
by Klover on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:42AM
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> I need some elitist type review system I think ;)
Then you shouldn't "ask" random people you don't even know. That elitist type review system is anything from a newspaper with an established critic, to a Michelin Guide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide
Re:Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
by te_chris on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:36AM
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I find this to be particularly bad with Americans and Brits. I don't really use yelp much anymore, but when you're on holiday and look at tripadvisor reviews of restaurants, it always seems to be the Americans and Brits complaining the otherwise great restaurants are bad because they don't do some awful shit that no one in their right mind would ever expect a really good seafood restaurant on the coast in Spain to do (e.g.).
These days, reviews on all platforms are more useful as a way to avoid genuninely awful places. As someone else said, ignore the average rating, but check a few comments to see if there's a consistent negative theme.
Re:Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
by eric_h on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:39AM
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Yelp isn't particularly useful if you're dependent upon the average score. It's solid as far as locating local businesses (and drilling down into actual reviews to make a decision, assuming you're in a city where yelp has a presence).
I find Yelp so strange with complaints about how someplace that really doesn't do someone's favorite food style gets some stupid reviews.... or they wish a place was more like a place that is 3x more expensive (how is that fair?). I just have no clue where anyone is coming from.
We had a Neapolitan pizza place open up in in our neighborhood. Great ingredients, amazing Neapolitan pizza. It was inundated reviews complaining about how thin the crust was and floppy the pizza sometimes is. .... they were basically complaining it wasn't some fast food style pizza place where they could stuff their face.
Eventually their ratings did recover and they've got reasonable reviews now, but ... people are dumb. I need some elitist type review system I think ;)
Maybe yelp and other review sites have changed but I've given up on them for a while.