App Store reviews are useless without being sorted in reverse chronological order.

This is an important question, as it goes to the fundamental usefulness of app reviews in the App Store. Recently one of my favorite ios apps was updated and done so poorly that it went from a 5 star to a 1 star app. Subsequently, the developer did a minor tweak, creating a newer version that did not fix the major issues, but has resulted in the many, many negative reviews written after the disastrous update being buried in all the high rating reviews created for a great previous version that no longer exists. Why are app store reviews no longer sorted by latest review first, i.e. reverse chronological order? It makes no sense for a review written in 2012 rating a a much older version of the app to be well ahead of 2014 reviews that relate to the disastrous update that occurred only a few months ago. I wrote a very negative review but now that the developer has made a trivial update, my review is buried very deep in the older version section well behind reviews written in 2013 and 2012. That makes no sense whatsoever and defeats the purpose of user reviews. I can only believe that Apple has done this for the benefit of app developers, as I see no logical reason how it can benefit the Apple iPhone and iPad consumer.

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