The popularity of app stores or play stores (depending on your handset) is undoubtedly connected to how the smartphone industry have grown as an “industry”. Many app developers have sprouted out and has been introducing various apps that could either be beneficial to our activities or greatly entertainment us. These applications can be accessed to our device’s specified app place, wherein we can choose from various options as to what app suits us the most.
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Through this particular app place, users can often leave their thoughts on the app and rate the app of its efficiency and user capability. They serve as a way of warning potential app users to about the defective app or simple invite users to use the app. It is a way of expressing their hate or love on that particular app.
For many years know, since the down of smartphone apps, these are the go-to recommended place to find out whether a certain app suits a particular person’s taste. With this, though, people have been generally made aware of certain ineffective or simply problematic apps, thanks to the instigators that were willing to share their hate on that particular app, almost serving as a far-seer for possible victims.
However, on a positive note, App reviews and ratings can be an app developer’s proof of trust from its users. If the developer has received a lot of positive feedbacks from the users, then the possibility of making more well-trusted apps is just beyond the horizon. With that, quality apps are born and deserving app developers usually get the credit they surely deserve.
Right now, the credibility of app reviews and ratings have slowly become a weary thing. Many developers have found the ability to use bots as a why of increasing their app’s ratings, which could pretty much mean that their apps are either a scam or rather defective or unimpressive, to say the least. This becomes a huge problem on the consumer side since many of us aren’t even aware that developers and company’s has the capability of doing this and thus we keep relying on them for advice on a particular app.
This has become very alarming throughout the evolution of apps as a whole, since despite the smartphone industry reaching a particular “growth spurt”, the app industry isn’t all the while well-endowed. We should all be aware of this fact and instead of heavily relying our decision on the app reviews and rating section, we ourselves should research all the necessary information and avoid falling into their trap. Remember, though, not all companies do this, there are still reliable one’s that develop reliable apps, however, the danger of being tricked into downloading something dangerous in our phones is still a possibility.
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