Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
by technoslut on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:19PM
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The ratings were particularly low before it went native. I know because I have a Gmail account in Mail.app and didn't use it because of this.
It's one thing not to listen to MG Siegler complain. It's another to excuse everyone else who complains on the App Store. They may not know the reason but they know the effect.
Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
by marknutter on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:58PM
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Ratings are far from a scientific way of deducing an app's value.
Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
by micampe on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:32PM
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Strawman. They may not be scientific (statistics is a science, btw), but they are one way we have to infer whether people hate an app or not, which was the topic of this branch of the conversation.
There's a tech community confirmation bias at work here. I can't see what the ratings were like before the most recent version, but Gmail has a 3.5/5 rating on the App Store right now. I suspect that a lot of "ignorant" non-tech users found it to be fine.