Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app

Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by marcellus23 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:29AM (#30191597)

Eh. I work for a company that also gets reviews like this a lot (reviews for products we offer instead of the app itself). You’d be surprised how many people accidentally do it, and how hard it is to prevent. I really think it’s a bit rich to suggest it’s intentional.

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by basisword on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:58AM (#30191837)

Reminds me of when I would frequently get 1 star reviews with the subject “Amazing app! Highly recommended”. So, so frustrating especially when the reviews can have such a big impact.

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by hbn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:13PM (#30195213)

If it's hard to stop, why did it used to have a low rating before 3 months ago?

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by hbn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:30PM (#30197507)

Actually I figured it out, it's in the article linked within the article. 3 months ago they started interrupting podcasts with a prompt to review (the app).

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791968/apple-podcasts-...

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by marcellus23 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:45PM (#30199390)

There's nothing in the article to suggest they're interrupting podcasts:

> We weren’t able to track down a copy of the prompt ourselves to confirm when and where it appears or what it looks like

It sounds more like they just didn't have any in-app prompts before 3 months ago, and then they added them.

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by hwers on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:29AM (#30192823)

If that were the case why was it ever at 1.8 stars to begin with then? The drastic change (with no software updates) certainly doesn't make intentional manipulation far fetched.

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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:04AM (#30191897)

Well it doesn't look like they're in a big hurry to "fix" this UX issue so I think it's worth pointing out

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