Apple Podcasts prompts you to review it on the App Store, but apparently only while listening to a podcast. I believe this is the only Apple app that prompts for reviews; and it's the new behavior that's responsible for bringing the rating from 1.8 to 4.9. Strange that the article doesn't mention this.

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

> I wondered if maybe this was a common confusion with podcast apps, where listeners think they’re reviewing a podcast instead of the app itself. But no, I didn’t see that obvious pattern when I checked reviews for other top podcast apps in the App Store. Almost every review on competing apps was a review of the apps themselves.

> Apple confirmed to The Verge that it’s using a new prompt but claims it’s nothing out of the ordinary. “With iOS 15.1 released last month, Apple Podcasts began prompting listeners to leave a rating and review just like most third-party apps — using the standard Rating & Review prompt available to all developers,” wrote an Apple spokesperson who only agreed to comment if they were not named.