App Store ratings mess: What do we like? Sigh, we dunno – fanbois Apple's App Store has continued to display the odd glitch four days after it suspended all rankings for eight hours on Friday to allow for the smooth introduction of iOS 7. The problem lies with the rankings, which detail the most downloaded apps at any given time. These were frozen on Friday during the launch of the latest …
Attention all: This is a temporary mini "troll Apple" article to tide Jasper over due to the current distinct absence of maxi "troll Apple" material. Stuff could just be made up as per the usual strategy, but the problem is that due to recent news doing such appears too much like sour grapes and will just make the Apple users smile. Normal service will be resumed as soon as suitable negatively spin-able material turns up.
Considering I'm sat here looking at the uk charts on my iPhone with ios7 and have not had this issue since the upgrade and am in the UK i'd say that:
"Currently, the charts on Apple's iTunes Store are broken in Britain, the US, Japan and much of Europe. Instead of the usual list of apps, a message is shown which says: "An error occurred while processing this directive.""
Is a load of BS.
From the article...
Currently, the charts (<--- click on this link) on Apple's iTunes Store are broken in Britain, the US, Japan and much of Europe. Instead of the usual list of apps, a message is shown which says: "An error occurred while processing this directive."
... and then later on...
The correct rankings appear to be displayed on the iOS App Store application, however.
You used the App Store on the phone instead of looking at the website, didn't you?
To be fair, for the few apps I've downloaded, I found and researched them on the web before I purchasing. The App Store doesn't provide nearly as much information about some apps as a web page.
I also think the search functionality in the App Store is pretty crap. I guess it is OK for finding games or other twaddle, but when I look for something more specialized I get 23 options of varying irrelevance. A quick look on Google turns something suitable right up; if it exists.
Fandroids are really suffering pain at the moment so they try to cling to every tiny Apple event and find fault any fault, but hey do I care? No, let them suffer the pain.
Lawl.
Something must really have gotten up your arse. Probably Android.
Oh hang on, no, that overtook a while ago, didn't it?
I love how the comments section for any article related to either Apple or Android immediately degenerates into a fandroid vs fanboi flame war. I have an iPhone and a nexus 7. I like both of them, they are both well engineered and easy to use pieces of kit. Am I allowed to make comments on these articles?
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