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iPod Store removes 5-star rating on Apple products

updated 10:05 am EST, Thu November 11, 2004

Apple drops self-ratings


Apple has quietly removed the "5-Apple" rating automatically granted to its own products on the company's new that lets customers submit their own reviews--as well as a 1 to 5 star rating--for products listed on the store. However, the company had set pre-determined ratings for its own products. A statement on the store's Web site, which once read, "All Apple products have a rating of "5 Apples" because we think they’re great," has since been removed.


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  1. dlindsay17

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    11/11, 10:27am | report spam | Reply |

    HAH!

    i miss iReview

  1. bobolicious

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    11/11, 10:51am | report spam | Reply |

    If Apple really...

    ...wants to improve its products it will offer reviews for its own gear & software... I've recently been suffering on OS-X with Java & data management issues (aka address book/mail) and Outlook or Mozilla on XP is quite honestly looking better & better... The iPod may be the best thing Apple has produced in years however I'm sure users will have useful suggestions or concerns... I know I resold the 10G one I bought within a week - the lossless codec that followed would have changed that decision...

  1. beeble

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    11/11, 11:34am | report spam | Reply |

    Re: If Apple really...

    You sold an iPod within a week of buying it? What were you expecting it to do? It plays music, how could you be disappointed with. And don't go giving me any of that c*** about compression wrecking the sound. You're listening to it through little ear buds. Sure, you plug an iPod into a decent sound system and you can hear slight differences between an AAC file and an AIFF or lossless compressed file or even the original CD but through the ear buds? Give me a break.

    It sounds as though you just didn't think it through and thought you were getting something that the iPod wasn't. You disappointment in the product wasn't the iPod's fault. It was you lack of understanding about what it was.

    This is clearly demonstrated by you considering switching to Outlook on XP. Homing pigeon's are higher up the scale than that. Smoke signals, tin cans and string, ESP, even snail mail rate higher in usefulness than Outlook. Why don't you just stick a sign on your back that says "My email address is .... Send me all the viruses, trojans and worms and worms you can find. I'll offer no resistance. None whatsoever because I'm a proud Outlook user!"

  1. strictlyplaid

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    11/11, 12:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    Thx, beeble

    What a helpful post! Now, I truly know that Apple products rockzorz my boxzorz!!111eleven1! And if I don't like them, it's MY fault. :-|

  1. testudo

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    11/11, 01:22pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: if apple really...

    ...wants to improve its products it will offer reviews for its own gear & software... I've recently been suffering on OS-X with Java & data management issues (aka address book/mail) and Outlook or Mozilla on XP is quite honestly looking better & better...


    How would reviews help you here? Would you have seen a review that said "Java sux on this box!" and then, what, bought a PC anyway. So, Apple actually made a sale that they wouldn't have if they had reviews.

    The iPod may be the best thing Apple has produced in years however I'm sure users will have useful suggestions or concerns... I know I resold the 10G one I bought within a week - the lossless codec that followed would have changed that decision...

    First, no one knew Apple had a lossless codec in the works until they announced it. So a review section wouldn't have helped (and even if someone posted "Check it out, next month Apple's coming out with a lossless codec!", it would have been erased by Apple moderators). Second, you didn't have to wait for the codec, because you could have (a) ripped the CDs at really high bit rates (like 320 or more), or (b) just ripped off the AIFF and used that. So you had a 'lossless' codec, and you still got rid of it.

    Finally, there are only like, 6 million web sites out there covering all things iPod (iPodlounge, for example), plus message boards and forums with iPod discussions (like, I don't know, MacNN!), where you can get all this good kind of information without wondering whether anything was cut by Apple.

    So I'm not exactly sure how a lack of review section for Apple branded products on Apple's own web site caused you so much pain and anguish.

    BTW, keep in mind Outlook is part of Office and will cost you some $300 to get. And if you're thinking of going to mozilla on XP, have you thought about Mozilla on OS X?

  1. apple=kkk

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    11/14, 02:50pm | report spam | Reply |

    Apple Computer Racism

    Multiple Racism-related Complaints continue to be filed against Apple Computer

    ANOTHER REASON NOT TO BUY AN IPOD...

    The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has received multiple complaints from Employees of Apple Computer regarding on-going Racial Segregation, Racial harassment, and Discrimination carried out by other employees and managers at Apple Computer in Cupertino California.

    Among the allegations (dating back both before, and after September 11, 2001),

    1) Racially Motivated threats of bodily harm, and harassment made by Apple Employees against minorities.

    2) Apple Managers instructing White employees to isolate and segregate non-Whites, ethnic minorities, etc.

    3) Termination of employment as a result of Racial retaliation against Asians, Middle Easterners, Blacks, and others.

    4) Employee usage of Apple's employee and customer information databases to forward personal information about racial minorities to White Supremacists located outside of the company, in both the United States and Canada.
    The allegations also point to Apple Computer's highly coordinated efforts between its Human Resources department, headed by Dan Walker, and managers in various departments at the company's Cupertino headquarters, to process complaints from victims by posing as third party "Employee Relations" personnel. Through this technique Apple has stolen evidence from victims and used that evidence to help it's White Supremacist employees to destroy and erase evidence such as E-mails etc.

    The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) keeps records of racial discrimination in the work place, and sometimes independently pursues legal action against offending entities. California Law requires victims of Racial Discrimination to file a complaint with it, prior to commencing any legal action against offending employers.
    Segregation, retaliation, and racially motivated terminations by employers are all illegal in California.


    Among those named in the complaints are the following people:
    (Numbers in parenthesis, refer to the complaint numbers above)

    David Mcleod (1,4)
    Peter Graffagnino (2, 3)
    John Meyer (2, 3)
    Howard Riley (2,3)
    John Gelensye (1)
    Dan Riccio (2,3)

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