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This Play Store change could stop you from review-bombing some of Google's apps (APK teardown)
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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Why? Are they doing badly? They're doing badly, aren't they?
People review all the system apps as 1 star because they don't know where they came from, what they do, or why they're installed
(First 2 out of 3 reviews the playstore shows me first for Android System WebView, which admittedly is a bad example because it has a 4.2 rating)
I think that's an education problem more than a review problem.
To the average user, those are unknown apps. I'd be upset to if my phone was auto downloading crap, especially the ones like AR that sound extra useless.
Having play store deliver updates is a great idea. Lumping them together with everything else is apparently not. There could be a separate "system updates" section to separate them.
I mean, System WebView for me is a 1 star. Old-ish phone (S20 FE) and the latest update of it before going out of support, keeps crashing while using some apps that uses it so I'm always there uninstalling the update and it autoupdate for some reason
Note: Not my main phone, I use it for development
That's a fair reason to rate it 1 star, I'm not saying that they're necessarily good apps!
Also I didn't think an S20 FE was really an old phone, they sure do move fast don't they lol
I don't know why they released that last update and nothing more, it was released in October 2020 and it didn't receive more updates
That's fair but I'm not sure why those types of system maintenance apps are reviewable. I was more talking about the changes to their suite of productivity apps (mail, calendar, chrome etc) that basically can't be deleted.