How famous people rate Google Play Store apps

[angry-hacker]

Some, who seem legit. (I lost my txti password) Unfortunately nothing too interesting:

Larry Ellison (Oracel): https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=105810347937...

Michael Dell (Dell): https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=100523784851...

Few Google execs:

https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=106087880965... https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=100873628951... https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=105332691637...

Anyway, if you want to help find something interesting or stalk your friends habits:

1) Find their Google+ page (easy) 2) Get their ID - View Source and control+F for oid=" 3) Paste the id to: https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=YOURIDNUMBER...

I find it funny Google own employees don't rate apps, probably because of privacy. Or maybe they have double accounts? It means they have to constantly ignore play store spamming you to rate them to get recommendations, see what your friends share etc. Everything in directly against how the Play Store wants them to use Play store.

[rtpg]

I think it's more that a lot of people don't really rate apps. I think I'm a pretty big consumer of apps, and I basically have rated 4 or 5 apps?

[darklajid]

Don't forget that there is a crowd that uses the play store, but isn't allowed to rate (aka "No G+ account").

Imagine how happy these people are, when apps (or anything) nags them to rate..

[tdkl]

Well the fact that they don't use this as intended says a lot. Also the part minding about privacy.

[joliss]

To get someone's (or your own) Google+ ID, you can also click the profile picture and copy the oid parameter out of the URL. (Pulling it out of "View Source" didn't work for some reason.)

[wodenokoto]

> I find it funny Google own employees don't rate apps

It might have something to do with how Google runs an internal version of Google+ only for employees.

[psykovsky]

The play store on my phone never nags me to rate apps. The apps themselves, yes, but not the play store.

[CPLX]

I thought you were going to tell me things about famous people. This is a list of tech executives.

[angry-hacker]

Well, I posted it to have a discussion and maybe people are able to find something interesting too?

Yanis Varoufakis, Greek's Finance Minister:

https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=114760450440...

[kohanz]

Mark Cuban's low ratings for SnapChat and other messaging apps likely stems from or lead to his investment in Cyber Dust [0].

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/maseenaziegler/2014/04/08/mark-c...

[icebraining]

Or vice-versa: maybe the fact that he dislikes the existing messaging apps led him to invest in one he does like.

[dethstar]

I felt kind of weird going thru the list.

>{X} person likes tinder

And I was like uhm, this is too personal. Then I gave it some thought, the person who has tinder and okcupid rated works for a company that wants all my personal information to sell ads. So perhaps this is only fair? I'd guess it would be (or it is, since some have empty profiles, perhaps by choice) hypocrite of them to complain about this.

[tallanvor]

I tried to rate an App once and got something similar to this (the current language):

"Ratings and reviews on Google Play are a great way to tell your friends about the apps and other content you love! These are linked to your Google+ profile and are public."

I'm not interested in that type of public activity. I could somewhat understand this for a full review, but certainly not for a simple 1 - 5 star rating.

[mirsadm]

You're already posting a public review, does it really matter if it also gets posted to Google+? I guess I don't have any objections to it because I'm not aware of anyone from my group of friends that actually uses Google+.

[declan]

Business Insider's writeup of this discussion: http://www.businessinsider.in/A-hacker-site-says-it-has-disc...

Headline is: "A hacker site says it has discovered the apps Mark Cuban loves - and those he doesn't"

Link to discussion about that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553236

[morsch]

Honestly, this is one reason why I don't like rating stuff on the net. I realize that tying validated identities to ratings is important to make manipulation more difficult, but I don't like the thought of leaving a public trail of my likes/dislikes and, for restaurants and hotels, locations.

I'd be more inclined (though still quite reserved) if there was an option to leave a rating that appears publicly anonymous, while still being logged in, retaining Google et al.'s ability to track me to combat manipulation and whatever more nefarious purposes come to mind.

[StevenTweedie]

It's legit -- just chatted with Cuban about it http://www.businessinsider.com/the-apps-mark-cubans-loves-an...

[some1else]

Eric Schmidt obviously has nothing to hide, because maybe he shouldn't be doing anything [..] in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew

[cekanoni]

honestly i was thinking we will see actually what they say about apps, but all we can see is they +1 it

[angry-hacker]

+1 will be publicly visible (for apps) even if you you have turned it off from Google+ profile page... I'm not sure if people realize it. It's also possible that people click +1 accidentally. I know I did when I reviewed my history, I have never ever wanted to +1 anything on store but I had for 5 apps.

[mahouse]

>famous