Tag: app store

  • Reporting Apple’s “Rate this app” dialogs

    Chuq Von Rospach writes about how Apple can implement a system to report unwanted “Rate this app” dialogs. What you want to build here is a reputation system. Every time this team validates a report, everyone who made that report gets their reputation value incremented. Every time a report is rejected, those that reported gets…

  • Should you rate App Store apps when prompted?

    I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve opened an app that I want to use to do something quick, only to immediately be nagged by the pop up prompting for my feedback. There are even times when I try to put a star rating and add in some comments, but most of…

  • Apple App Store search finally notices common typing mistakes

    To me, search has always been one of Apple’s weak points. Even after taking that into account, it’s always been frustrating that mistyping one letter could mean that you would not find the app that you’re looking for. This is a small step in the right direction, and hopefully search improvements come to Apple Maps…

  • Apple App Store introduces video trailers

    Apple finally releases Clumsy Ninja and this latest Editor’s Choice app debuts with a video trailer. This is a big change in how developers can showcase their apps.