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Cool, kind of expected findings...if Apple is using ratings explicitly in rankings, I'd like to download only 5 star apps.


A bit impractical, given that all software will bug out sooner or later. And even worse, fickle people will instantly 1-star your app.


Appurify's mission is to help app developers make apps that will "not bug out sooner or later". That's our main point, debugging and testing tools for mobile are way behind where they need to be. When an app is really buggy/crashy the number of genuine 1-star reviews far outweighs fickle people.


There should be a law governing all verdicts requiring them to abide by a rule of common sense law.


That is equivalent to abolishing rule of law.

And leads to an immediate race to the bottom of human sentiments and emotions.

Feel free to google for "Gesundes Volksempfinden" (~"healthy people's perception"). The central pillar that allowed German jurists in the Third Reich to distort the existing law at will.

The German civil code has been changed often, but fundamentally it's the same now as it was in 1900. Pretty fascinating how it's now seeing the fourth totally different political system.


Bell, Morse, Land, Kurzweil, Bose, ... the list of Boston associated inventors is never ending. Then again Polaroid or Bose corporation can't compete with the limelight of the web world.

Most audiophiles buy stuff very few people have heard off, and Bose products themselves are on the fence of trying to be audiophile, yet popular ... a tricky space to be in.


EE grads occupy an interesting identity crisis. While on one hand they want to pass off as ECE (computer-engineering) candidates with decent programming skills, they also want to identify with being an "applied math" or "Alogirthm" engineer.

Unfortunately in today's world nimbleness in learning new s/w skills is valued more than having specific expertise is "speech coding" or "image segmentation", etc. Further more, it is easier to be a generalist as a pure CS person, than being a hard-core EE person. Bottom line the "tool" has become more important than the "solution".

Inevitably, being a specialist means the labor force is fragmented, and purely from a relative comparison to the CS "supply-demand" situation, its a relatively "low-supply [specialized] - low-demand" situation.

It not that you are undervalued or underemployed as the article might suggest (btw I wouldn't read too much into the first quarter results on unemployment figures/ considerations on how many to include in labor force, etc.), but its more like being a "lightly traded stock, with not much liquidity, high big-ask spreads".


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