Ioman
11-04-2004, 07:59 AM
Saw this at Gizmodo and thought it was pretty funny:
This is so stupid. Apple has added a product rating to their online store, letting users submit reviews of products and give them a one- to five-star rating—unless those products happen to be Apple branded. If it's an Apple-made product, like an iPod Dock, for instance, it automatically gets a 'five Apple' rating, "because we think they’re great."
It gets worse. In the little pop-up FAQ box it reads:
Why can’t customers rate Apple products?
Would you trust us to display less than perfect ratings on our own products? We didn’t think so!
What does that even mean? We wouldn't trust you to... be honest? To take a few lumps if your product is less-than-perfect? What a cop out. If they weren't going to let Apple products be rated and reviewed, they shouldn't have added the feature at all.
Typical Apple for you! Why even have user reviews in the first place?
http://store.apple.com/
This is so stupid. Apple has added a product rating to their online store, letting users submit reviews of products and give them a one- to five-star rating—unless those products happen to be Apple branded. If it's an Apple-made product, like an iPod Dock, for instance, it automatically gets a 'five Apple' rating, "because we think they’re great."
It gets worse. In the little pop-up FAQ box it reads:
Why can’t customers rate Apple products?
Would you trust us to display less than perfect ratings on our own products? We didn’t think so!
What does that even mean? We wouldn't trust you to... be honest? To take a few lumps if your product is less-than-perfect? What a cop out. If they weren't going to let Apple products be rated and reviewed, they shouldn't have added the feature at all.
Typical Apple for you! Why even have user reviews in the first place?
http://store.apple.com/