Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

Post by gknoy » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

criley wrote: post #42

Karunamon wrote: post #34

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I expect users of a social network service to understand the most basic details of how such a service works. Slamming the service because you don't like the postings of people you chose to subscribe to is just a little bit ridiculous. It would be like subscribing to political blogs on $rssApp and then leaving bad ratings for the app because your news stream is filled with political news. Facebook's tools have been pr…

>So i'll say it again. You, the user, is ultimately responsible for what comes up in your stream. I think this is a very outdated and anti-user way to approach the Facebook service, and I hope your idea of how these services work will be overthrown by better startups or a better Facebook. I see it as simply: * A failure of Facebook to figure out what I like seeing, which is shocking seeing as I literally "Like" the t…

Post by arindone » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #70

benhanks040888 wrote: post #64

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Yeah, there must be lots of people like that. I'm just comparing it to Facebook app which has 3,5 rating (which I'm sure lots of haters 1-star it too but still end up with acceptable rating)

I mentioned this downthread, but Google unlike, say, Amazon doesn't let you rate things you haven't downloaded/purchased. If these really are protest votes, that would mean users are going through the effort of downloading the app, then uninstalling it, then leaving the crap rating. So either there are some dedicated facebook haters out there, or the people who tried this app really hate it that much...

Post by gcb0 » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #60

r00fus wrote: post #59

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I had no idea that "open" Android was so locked down for your average (ie, non-rooting) user. Combine with bootloader locks, and you have mandatory privacy invading apps. And some people think Apple is Big Brother?

Not sure why gcb0 elided to point out that since 4.0 Android allows disabling built in apps. (Functionality equivalent to deleting, except their space in the ROM is still occupied). Locked/unlocked bootloaders is a fairly different issue and is seeming to be much less of an issue lately.

Post by criley » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

gknoy wrote: post #71

criley wrote: post #42

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>So i'll say it again. You, the user, is ultimately responsible for what comes up in your stream. I think this is a very outdated and anti-user way to approach the Facebook service, and I hope your idea of how these services work will be overthrown by better startups or a better Facebook. I see it as simply: * A failure of Facebook to figure out what I like seeing, which is shocking seeing as I literally "Like" the t…

Right now, it's easy to either unfriend someone, or hide ALL of their stuff from your feed. I'd prefer to be able to say things like, "Show me photos that X posts, but don't show me any of the web links that X posts".

Post by smackfu » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #21

smackfu wrote: post #12

"mostly thanks to more than 5,800 one-star reviews." AKA, protest ratings. "This sucks in principle and I will never use it since Facebook is stupid."

Android doesn't let you rate things until after you've downloaded them, though. If that's truly the cause of these ratings, people are going through a lot of work to just say "facebook sucks".