News Summary

• App users generally don't like being nagged to rate and review an app, especially when it interrupts the very thing they are using the app for.
• Apple is looking only for 5-star reviews, and if you leave a 4-star one intending it to be positive, that can actually damage the standing of an app.
• John Gruber argues that the way for Apple to solve this problem is to abandon the star system to bring it in line with what the majority of users actually do – rate 5 for an app they like and 1 for one they don’t.