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According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.
And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.
Why would anyone install government shit on their phone
From the US government, I completely agree. But a functional government helps and supports its citizens and there are plenty of ways an app on your phone can help. Admittedly that's pretty ideological, but at the very least I'd argue there is a spectrum
It should just be a website and not something that needs to live on my phone 24/7
Don't you follow and obey Orange Jesus?
Quite a few governments make it mandatory, either as an only way to complete a required process, or (like my govt) make any alternate options, like phone or Web, an absolute nightmare
It’s because there were SO many downloads, more than two BILLION I’m told, by some really fantastic people who made the app, this wonderful app, that we hit something called an INTEGER LIMIT. Can you believe that? We had so many of you GREAT Americans sign up, that it just completely broke the App Store. It’s just incredible.
/s
More like
We hit something called pulls up paper
int... inta... intajur? limit. what a word
8 bit I assume
One bit.
509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
The Play Store has recently (I think about 3 years ago?) introduced delayed updates for things like download counts because they were battling faked statistics (e.g. the download counter could be manipulated by bot farms), so now downloads are accumulated and checked against users actually using the app and having it on their devices - which takes time to update so IIRC they now only update that counter every month. Hence the 0+ downloads.
So they're verifying downloads, but not reviews?
Both are verified by an automated system.
which is why fake reviews slip through but fake downloads don't really (download count is easy to verify with device feedback, fake reviews require a proper system...)