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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)
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.