Apple, It’s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps
This reminds me of how PyPI ratings got disabled after a long discussion with the community, started by jacobian:http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-catalog-sig/3482/I strongly agree that the PyPI ratings were mostly useless and that removing the feature was a good decision.iPhone app ratings can be much more useful for popular apps, but for the long tail of apps, they suffer the same problems as PyPI's rating and review system did.Amazon and Yelp ratings, on the other hand, are quite useful. I think it's partly because users have profiles and are better able to express themselves.