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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by jamil7 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:06AM (#30191913)
You can reset your rating with a new release so maybe it's something to do with that, I've never actually tried it but maybe it keeps the total review count but resets the average stars?
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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by Sosh101 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:20AM (#30192033)
Then that's a very deceptive model on the part of Apple, since then it's certainly not "4.8 stars from 1.8M ratings".
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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by jamil7 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:29AM (#30192108)
I might be wrong, I've never actually tried it, last time I looked the explanation on how it works is unclear which is pretty on-brand for Apple-Developer relations.
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