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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).
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.
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.