Fun with App Store Reviews
Earlier today I was scrolling through the Featured apps in the iPhone App Store when I came across the Death Cab for Cutie app. Now I’m not exactly a fan of Death Cab, but some of their stuff I’ve heard is pretty good. Either way, they have a new app that features a selection of songs, photos, concert information, and more. Basically it’s a brilliant idea to raise awareness and feature the new album. After browsing the information I went down to the reviews, because, well, that’s what I do whenever I’m looking at a product. This is where the fun began.
Awesome!
What’s great about this comment is that while the poster, Nerd Killer, obviously has eclectic music tastes (s)he has little in the way of intelligence. You see, Mr. or Miss. Nerd Killer is, presumably, a self proclaimed killer of nerds. Though at the end of the post (s)he announces that they are a big music nerd. Awesome is right! Is that a conflict of interest or just another person that needs to get punched in the jeans?
Since that was so much fun, I decided to look at some reviews for a few “featured” yet poorly rated apps. Boy am I glad I did! The official Grammys app brought not one, but two reviews worth pointing out.
Anynomuss?
Alright. I don’t have a clue what this app is about but I can assume, by the coherent review given by “bobbyriggs,” that it involves some sort of music trivia game. The first reviewer, B2melo, brings all kinds of hilarity. Now I can understand the principal of wanting to give the app a zero star review. For not letting he/she/it play. But come on Grammys app, you didn’t play on B2melo. How dare you be so rude? I’m not really sure what Anyomuss is so whiskey tango foxtrot over, but they’re worth pointing out because anyomuss is about the coolest way of possibly spelling anonymous wrong. [Fort the record, it took me two tries to spell anonymous correctly.]
This next review comes from some sort of diet app — I can’t remember the name and it’s not worth my time to go back and find it.
To skinny? Where'd that come from?
The Rose Queen moniker is perfect. While the name makes her sound like a nice girl, you know she’s got that thorny aspect to her. And that shows up in her review. Though, the rose in question probably got hit with a bit of pesticide in the growing process. She offers up a pretty good review, until she starts talking about being too skinny. If I get a diet app and don’t like it, I don’t like it. How does that mean I’m to skinny? And there was no offensive taken. Though when the rose offensive is underway, I don’t want to be anywhere near here…
I was wondering if there was any justice for the app store reviews so I decided to see if the app’s content made any difference. Enter some $10 app that features information on every member of Congress.
Well thought out and written reviews? It's possible? Amazing!
Apparently making an app that intelligent people use will merit intelligent reviews. Who would have thought? Hum. You know what this means, right? There’s a freaking comedic gold mine in the fart app category!