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Re:Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48... by hkmurakami on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:36PM (#5541504)
Do poor ratings even matter for a super-brand-name application like this? I feel that if I want something like, say, Facebook messenger, I'm going to install it regardless of what its rating is on the app store.

(though I guess with something as "strange/new" as Facebook Home, ratings might matter in giving "on the fence" people enough confidence to try it out)

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Re:Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48... by danielrhodes on Friday April 12, 2013 @08:40PM (#5542008)
Sure. Facebook Poke did not receive a lot of positive reviews and has faded into obscurity. Likewise when Facebook was mostly an HTLM5 app and performed poorly, there were tons of negative reviews which prompted Facebook to refactor the app.
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