Shopify App Store Star Ratings Are Too Unreliable for Merchants to Trust
A team found that star ratings across 237 apps in a single Shopify app-store category were not a reliable signal of quality, prompting them to build their own scoring system. This points to a broader problem: merchants choosing apps for their store have no trustworthy way to compare quality within a crowded category.
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