In the iPhone 4 beta, when you delete an app you are not asked to rate that app as you are in iPhone 3.0. Whether this functionality has been removed from the iPhone OS going forward, however, or is merely removed from the beta so people don't rate apps based on beta behavior is unknown.
Many developers have long had issue with the "rate on delete" function introduced in iPhone 2.2. Making it easiest to rate an app when you were removing it was thought to unfairly favor lower reviews.
We'll have to wait until this summer's official iPhone OS 4 release to see if it stays gone. In the meantime, let us know what you think. Did you use rate on delete? Did it make it easier to rate lower quality apps? Did you go to the App Store to also rate your preferred apps? And do you want to see rate on delete removed or do you hope it's back in the final release?
Reader comments
iPhone OS 4 beta: "Rate on delete" gone, or just on pause?
How do you move the apps out of folders?
Yeah. I always give an app a low rating when I delete it. Sometimes it didn't really deserve it. I'm a horrible person. Things would be better off without that option to rate upon delete.
Definatelly favors low ratings in my opinion!
The rating should appear after opening the app 4-5 times, in order to get a good vibe of the app before rating it.
Asking people to "rate on delete" definitely skews apps towards low ratings.
IMHO, it should have never been put into the OS.
Seriously, what genius thought of that brilliant marketing tactic?
Thank GOD. It was horrible and annoying.
My guess is that it's been removed. There have been too many complaints.
Every app I've ever deleted are still in iTunes. I just didn't want them crowding my home screens when they're so rarely used. I always click "No Thanks".
I do the same as Fastlane. Click no thanks. Most of the time I am deleting it to clean up my phone from the random downloads I do everyday.
@Mitchell: Open the folder and hold down the app that you want and wait until it wiggles then move out the app onto the homescreen...
The only thing worse than rate on delete are those apps that pop up a Rate This App box, when you are trying to use it. This pops up as you LOAD the app, so whatever you were doing gets interrupted, and invariably most users decline the invitation (Because it always launches something else and you forget what the heck you launched it for in the first place).
Rate on Delete is a good idea, it makes high rated apps a rare thing as opposed to the norm. If every app is high rated it makes it hard to find which ones are truly good. When people delete apps it's usually because they didn't like the app, why not make it easier for them to voice their opinion to let future potential customers know.
This feature is fine since it applies to all apps and not just a select few, if it was just for a select few apps it wouldn't be fair.
Rate on Delete is a good function. If I just clean my screen I alwas press NoThankYou. It does not take much effort to do this. There is a lot of junk and mediocre apps. I find that most of high rated app with >100 votes are very discent. I would like to keep it this way. Having all apps rated high will be a disaster for the app store.
http://www.rlslog.net/iphone-os-4-beta/
informative :)
If 10000s of people are deleting an app... and rating it low... the review SHOULD show "very low rating".
Don't you want to know that... before you buy it?
If Apple really has to remove the "rate at deletion" feature, then maybe a better idea:
As a developer... and buyer of apps... would prefer to see info like this: