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FTA: We don’t have a bad average rating (3.98 with almost 2.900 ratings), but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t reflect the quality of the last version we launched.

Really? The whole thesis of this article is that app ratings are broken because you have a 4 out of 5?

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No, he is saying that most of those votes are irrelevant to the current downloadable version and should be treated as such, the actual score is posted as an aside and is moot.

no, the idea for the article comes from the changes in iOS7 that have improved the number of our downloads. So it affects all apps that started a few years ago.

But it's also true that I'm a perfectionist myself, so if we have spent thousands of hours on the app, I want it to have the fair rating. And with the current algorithm it hasn't.

IIRC, iOS has grouped ratings by version (as show latest by default) for longer than iOS 7. I believe it was introduced in like iOS 4 or 5?

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