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Comment by spearo77 | Hacker News Reader

The less fantastic news, is that your ratings will be averaged over each phone/tablet/API version. As you leave features out of older-API versions, those users will be unhappy and leave negative reviews.

Until Google presents reviews and ratings associated to specific versions, and now APKs, these reviews and ratings will continue to be problematic.

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As you leave features out of older versions, those users will be unhappy and leave negative reviews.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? It seems like you're saying users will be unhappy because they can't get new features without having to update, which seems odd.

Not every person/device can update their Android OS.

Also, the quality of the reviewers on Android Market may be naturally distributed thus 50% would have below average intelligence ;)

On our iOS camera app, owners of early iPod Touch devices leave 1-star reviews because our app doesn't add a hardware camera to their device.

There are some stunningly idiotic users out there.

Agreed, but shouldn't you require users to have a camera to download a camera app? There's a key/value you should be able to add to your Info.plist to block devices without a camera...

"UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities (Array or Dictionary - iOS) lets iTunes and the App Store know which device-related features an application requires in order to run. iTunes and the mobile App Store use this list to prevent customers from installing applications on a device that does not support the listed capabilities."

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/genera...

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