Stars... They're What Growing Developers Eat for Breakfast
Stars... In this day and age, free is nearly expected. You spent eight hundred bucks on your smart phone, why should you have to pay for the apps on it? And speaking of free apps, they better be amazing, so why bother downloading something that doesn’t have at least 4 stars attached to it? Once you download the app, why bother adding a rating of your own? This extra effort can seem very time consuming and trivial from a consumer’s perspective. This attitude poses real problems for developers. Developing software is time consuming, and it can be very expensive. Many developers can’t even break even to make back their $99 per year developer account that allows them to have apps on the app store to begin with. Is it because people don’t like their apps, or they make garbage software? No. It’s because their apps get burried, and the people who do download them, don’t bother to add a review. Reviews matter, a lot. ...