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Apple's First Android App, Move To iOS, Is Getting Killed With One-Star Reviews
An anonymous reader writes: Apple today launched Move to iOS, the company's first Android app built in-house. As we noted earlier, "It should surprise no one that the first app Apple built for Android helps you ditch the platform." The fact that the app is getting flooded with one-star reviews is not particularly surprising, either. At the time of publication, the app has an average rating of 1.8. The larger majority (almost 79 percent) are one-star reviews, followed by five-star reviews (almost 19 percent).
If you actually look at the reviews, most of them aren't people who actually use the app and are clearly people just looking for reasons to flame off about Apple.
And for anyone that doesn't read the exact subreddits to which the story was posted? Or who don't follow reddit at all? Well, the fact that it was covered first at reddit is pretty moot then, isn't it?
Why can non-users review an app? That seems to be a play store fail.
Didn't Google ban ad blockers from the Play Store?
I'm IT in the local school district, which has plentiful amount of mac. I looked up the current power cable for macbook airs on a whim; I was morbidly curious about how much apple charges for one.
I'm not sure why Apple put a rating system into their own site's products. Especially when it ends up like this.
Pages of people with appleIDs, and pages of their handwritten, one-star reviews.
This is the best argument I've seen yet to choose Android over Apple. As a developer, you say that you are making lots of money writing apps for iOS. That you don't like "freemium" apps and like to "charge up front" for your apps. And this is a prime reason to move to Android - the plethora of free apps - and quite useful and usable apps at that. And if I find the app useful, I choose how much money to give to you for it. You've confirmed for me that iOS is still the old model - purchase the software up front and hope it does it what you want it to in a way that is useful and easy. Android is far closer to open source - indeed many of my Android apps ARE open source. Bottom line is that if you believe that the closed ecosystem represented by iOS is superior, hey, it's your money. Me? I'll take the open frontier of the Android ecosystem every day and twice on Sunday.
Disclosure: I've always hated Apple, from the moment they sued MS for "look and feel", when in reality Jobs ripped the entire GUI interface off from Xerox PARC in the first place.
I've seen both on both sides of the fence. One of my Apple-loving friends is hostile toward my Android phone despite never having used one as a primary device, while my Apple-loving wife switched to Android for a little over a year before going back to the iPhone; she doesn't dislike Android, she just wanted to go back to using the apps she had already gotten used to (and paid for) on iOS. Meanwhile, I only ever hear my Android-using friends and colleagues poke fun at Apple users in a joking manner; most of us are also Apple users, just not when it comes to our phones. Personally, that means an iPad (original), iPad Air, Apple TV, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, and two MacBook Pros; for my best friend that means two MacBook Pros, an iPad Air, and an iPod Touch; almost every one of my friends and colleagues has at least one Apple device that they use regularly, though, for most, that device is not their phone.
Poking fun at a group of people of which you are a member is not a form of hostility. Grow up.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.