All 500 + reviews removed from App store

[Mike Guidotti]

I think that is all my fault. I sorted the reviews by most favorable to least favorable then I started clicking the “no” button next to the “Was this review helpful question.”

Since I rated all the 5 star reviews as not helpful and the 1 star reviews as helpful, Apple in true Apple style took ALL the reviews down!!!

[Chris Kenny]

Huh? I see 554 ratings right now, not with an especially positive distribution. These accusations of supposed ratings manipulation on Apple’s part seem pretty unfounded.

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[Andrew Corneles]

check it for yourself chris instead of just responding to people telling the truth. The REVIEWS are gone. the counter remains.

[Adam Mccune]

Right. The reviews are gone. Do we know why? No. I think that is the handle here.

[Mike Guidotti]

I would post a screen shot but I might get sued by Apple for some form of intellectual property rights violation.

Just checked again BTW and they are still gone! I am glad FORTUNE magazine quoted the first 5!!!

https://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/22/the-final-cut-pro-x-debacle/

[J Hussar]

I just checked – Apple yanked the reviews! Wow!

[Steve Mitchell]

same thing on the canadian app store… counter is there, all reviews are gone, including the one I wrote 2 hours ago

[Alan Okey]

I have to admit that I’m getting a perverse thrill from watching this whole release “strategy” blow up in Apple’s face. In less than 48 hours this has become a bonafide PR disaster for Apple, and for once they deserve every bit of the negative press they’re getting over this. Their deletion of purchaser comments from the Mac App Store just shows their level of desperation as things spin out of control.

In my opinion, releasing what is essentially a beta product while simultaneously pulling a stable, mature, working product off of the shelves was an extremely poor decision on Apple’s part.

[Chris Kenny]

Ahh, I do see that. I flipped through some reviews last night and noticed that many highly ranked negative reviews were flat out wrong, and were claiming the app couldn’t do things that it can in fact do, apparently because people hadn’t bothered to figure out the new UI. I’m guessing the removal might have had something to do with that. Negative reviews are one thing; negative reviews that factually misrepresent the app’s capabilities are another.

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[Chris Kenny]

[Alan Okey] “In less than 48 hours this has become a bonafide PR disaster for Apple, and for once they deserve every bit of the negative press they’re getting over this. Their deletion of purchaser comments from the Mac App Store just shows their level of desperation as things spin out of control.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, but what goes on in this (and similar) Internet forums is just not nearly as important, or as representative of the larger market, as you’re making it out to be.

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