Re: [iphonesb] Dealing With Negative Reviews

I have only had this in place for a short period of time but my results so far 
are very encouraging: providing a prominent way within the app to contact you 
or your support team directly seems to give a solid chance to cut those reviews 
off at the quick.

I'm planning to compile some data on positive and negative review rates before 
and after adding an in-app "Email Support" button to Rowmote, which I'll share 
after I have a decent data set.

-Evan



On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Jesse Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> The way iTunes store reviews are set up makes it feel to the user that they 
> are somehow communicating with us, the developer -- like commenting on our 
> blog and we should be able to help, right?
> 
> Helping folks, getting field feedback is rare and hard to come by.
> 
> I have long felt there's a good reason to make it more clear how people can 
> communicate with the developer more easily if they wish.
> 
> Of course, apple should also provide a way we can distribute beta 
> applications to testers who opt-in to such a thing, but I digress...
> 
> Clearly, people feel the review board is a way to communicate and of course, 
> we know we don't even hear when they leave a comment on there! foreign stores 
> are practically lost entirely.
> 
> Sadly, I've never found any satisfactory solutions to this
> 
> I have fallen back to simply reviewing once in a while and taking note of 
> anything I might be able to look into if at all possible.
> 
> I once had some German guy announce that my app was sending personal data up 
> to my servers which is silly -- of course, I didn't even know he had written 
> the review, and he never contacted me but represented himself as some sort of 
> privacy expert or whatever.
> 
> what could I do?
> 
> I can't even contact the person or leave a response or anything at all...
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:10 PM, TimMarketing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm wondering if other developers have good solutions to dealing with
>> negative reviews of iPhone apps. I find it very frustrating that we
>> can't reach out and help these customers. They don't seem to use our
>> help desk and just go straight to posting negative reviews. Does
>> anyone have a good strategy for either helping these folks or just
>> getting better reviews in general?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
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