Apple Afraid Of What You Might Say About Their Products
from the uh...-yes,-let's-not-listen-to-our-customers dept
This one is a bit bizarre, but it does seem to confirm Apple's reputation for being serious about designing cool products, but never listening to what their actual customers tell them (Apple knows best...). They've apparently added the ability to rate products in the Apple store but not if they're built by Apple. Those products automatically get a five star rating because Apple thinks they're great, and how dare you suggest they might not be perfect. In fact, they basically say that in the explanation. While I do think Apple products are often great, the company has a bit to learn about listening to customers.
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Apples vs. Oranges
I'd look for this technique to be applied to politics someday.
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Shrug
This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Suppose Apple had allowed users to rate their products on a website run by Apple. It would be a clear conflict of interest. Who would trust them to remain objective? These days, nobody trusts a corporation to provide accurate reviews of their product.
I think this is their way of acknowledging the realities of the situation. The five apples mark is simply a cute way of saying, "We're not going to insult your intelligence by telling you to trust us."
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Makes sense. Re: Shrug
And let's face it, online customer reviews are garbage, everyone knows it now. You see wild high ratings, glowing reviews and then 1 or 2 really, really negative reviews that are probably from competitors that cut the thing down... heck, I'm the first to admit I read those for the product's flaws before any of the other ones.
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