Under the Bridge

Well, this is an innovative approach to the problem of getting good reviews on the App Store: just go ahead and ask for them!

We all agree that having JUST negative solicitation (that is, Apple’s rate-on-delete) is bad, whether we agree or not that having it is a good thing (I think it is). What we lack is a way to solicit positive reviews from satisfied users to counteract the rate-on-delete ratings slump.

Well, here it is:

Find it on Google Code as part of the author’s UIKitPlus project; dunno if it will actually help with the negative selection problem … but it very likely isn’t going to hurt. One can hope.

h/t: iPhoneSDK!

UPDATE:

Here’s another class for the prompt for reviews and ratings kind of thing:

Presenting, Appirater