{"id":3191,"date":"2017-01-24T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T02:36:42","slug":"apple-to-allow-developers-to-respond-to-app-store-reviews-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Apple to allow developers to respond to App Store reviews &#8211; and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2017\/01\/24\/apple-explains-the-new-app-reviews-api-for-developers\/\">The Loop reports<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Apple will not only allow developers to respond to reviews, they&#8217;re also rolling out an API that brings in-app rating and review to every user&#8217;s fingertips while preventing developer abuse. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s not quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=1612\">what we asked for over five years ago<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0tech support issues &#8211; which can start off a bit hostile &#8211; will still face the public before developers have a chance to respond and they&#8217;ll remain visible, coloring an application&#8217;s story without any accountability, unless users remember to remove them. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s OK. \u00c2\u00a0This is a great and much-needed move in a direction that helps users, developers, and Apple. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Win-win-win!<\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0Thank you for finally taking this part of application development and deployment on the App Store seriously,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\">Apple<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loop reports\u00c2\u00a0Apple will not only allow developers to respond to reviews, they&#8217;re also rolling out an API that brings in-app rating and review to every user&#8217;s fingertips while preventing developer abuse. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s not quite what we asked for over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}