Google recently launched its application for podcasts, which some saw as an important and late step to provide a formal and virtual application for Android phones, since Google is a developer and supporter of the system, as is the case with iPhone phones that come with a default application that allows users to follow programs Listen and listen to the episodes at any time.
Although the application has many useful features - but many - or many - were not satisfied with its performance or convinced of the characteristics available in it, and this led them to give the app a low or medium evaluation in the Google Play app store, which Ultimately resulted in an average rating of only 3.4 out of 5 stars, while other competing applications had high ratings.
Here are some free podcast apps available in the store with each app rating:
The Podcast Go is 4.7
Application (Podcast Addict) is 4.6
The Castbox application is 4.7
The application (Podcast Player) is 4.6
Pocket Casts application with 4.6
The following are some of the possible causes of this phenomenon, the phenomenon of some good applications have low ratings:
(1) Compare them to the best
The problem in the case of the implementation of Google Podcast that it appeared late, appeared and other applications have penetrated the arena and spread and competed with each other for years in the provision of features and characteristics, and the ceiling of expectations is high, the user often tried a lot of other applications, and when he starts using the new application, automatically compare the previous , Will look at the non-existent properties, although there are other useful properties, and because of these comparisons will build the decision that the application is not the required level, and sends a modest evaluation.
The other thing is related to the developed company and the expectations of its users. We see these low ratings on applications from more famous companies than we see in applications from immersed companies, because the ceiling of expectations is high, the user expects a giant company like Google or Facebook to come with high-level applications And unique properties.
(2) problems with specific phones
The user may try the application not working in his device, and then the application gives one star and writes a sharp criticism complaining that the application does not work, while it works in other devices, and this problem may appear in some applications that do not correspond to all phones (companies) Its user affects the overall rating until it drops to a modest level.
Conclusion: The application developer should ensure that the application works on different phones coming from the most important smart phone manufacturers (also make sure that it is suitable for the size of the different screens).
(3) Frequent advertising
One of the reasons why many users are annoying and leading them to give the application one or two stars is the abundance of ads. It is true that these free applications are primarily monetized by ads, which is acceptable and not a problem, but the number of ads is exaggerated, The user can see it time after time, which leads to the application to get a weak evaluation despite the strength of its performance and the multiplicity of characteristics.
(4) previous assessments
One of the reasons that affect the overall evaluation of an application is that it has had past evaluations when it was poorly performing, limited in features, or even bugged. When these problems are fixed or the application is improved and released in a new format, Good ratings, but the problem is that the previous assessments remain and still affect the overall assessment taken as the average of all assessments.
Is the solution for those applications to start again and issue another application away from previous negative evaluations? Or maybe continue to optimize and marketing to reach a larger segment, thus getting more positive ratings overwhelm the former and positively affect the overall assessment? All options are available for the developer or the company to take any of them or others more appropriate.
(5) conspiracy theory
Can one conspire against the application of a competitor, hiring people and users to write and send negative evaluations that overwhelm the positive and ultimately lead to the application being poorly evaluated? Yes, and that evil competitor may not need to build a costly labor force, he can simply use a farm of duty-making lychees and more.
Lycat farms are places where many smart phones (thousands of phones) are located in closed rooms, connected to those who manage and control them. Every phone is like an imaginary user who admires or evaluates as desired.
In the end, these assessments and comments are not the only way to judge the application, and it is relative to the user's need and use of the application, which may be useful to you may not be useful to others, so: Make yourself and read comments (negative before the positive) and try the application if necessary , Then after that;
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