Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app
by nmstoker on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:39AM
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Maybe they found a way to push for reviews from the people who answer Amazon product questions saying they don't know?
Or they got people in from Wells Fargo to advise them on meeting targets?
More seriously, isn't it time that app stores were pushed to define common industry standards and those were enforced by external parties. In other spheres of life, we typically don't let companies mark their own homework when in a position of power like this (at least not all the time).
Apple and Google are known for their unreasonable behaviour this way, be it lacking transparency with rules, ignoring appeals from devs and users, and letting malicious software in (last one is admittedly a tough call at times)
Or they got people in from Wells Fargo to advise them on meeting targets?
More seriously, isn't it time that app stores were pushed to define common industry standards and those were enforced by external parties. In other spheres of life, we typically don't let companies mark their own homework when in a position of power like this (at least not all the time).
Apple and Google are known for their unreasonable behaviour this way, be it lacking transparency with rules, ignoring appeals from devs and users, and letting malicious software in (last one is admittedly a tough call at times)