All in all, independent reviews on iTunes of your applications is a good thing. Although there may be the occasional fellow who has just had a bad day and gives you 1 star because they didn’t read your description properly.
From a developers point of view, the reviews offer a somewhat anonymous way for your customers to give you feedback. It’s a valuable mine of feature possibilities and ‘bug reports’. The problem is, however, that you can’t easily get the whole picture just by using iTunes.
You see, all the review comments are kept contained to the separate stores around the world. So US customers and developers can’t easily see Australian comments and feedback.
Perhaps there’s a better tool out there (if there is I’d love to know about it) but currently if you rely on iTunes to read your reviews, you’ll never be able to read all your reviews at once.
To get around this problem, you’re going to have to be a bit shifty..
- Start iTunes normally and go to Store->View My Account
- Enter your password
- Click on “Change Country”
- Pick another country that will have reviews you can read the language of
- Accept the next screen..
- Accept the license agreement
- When asked for a credit card in that country, hit Apple-Q and get out of iTunes
- Now load iTunes again..
- Ta-Da! You’re now browsing the other country’s iTunes store
To get back it’s as easy as going to Settings->View My Account again and as soon as you enter your password it’ll realize you’ve done something odd and put you back in your native store.
So there you have it. Again, if there’s a better way to do this PLEASE let me know!