I agree with your comment overall; however, I wanted to touch upon the following quote.
> how can you ... only notice [your app is failing] because you checked ad revenue? Sorta implies where their focus is, neh?
In what business is revenue _not_ the primary focus? While I understand the importance of product quality and customer service, as well as the correlation between these factors and revenue, a company that's paying more attention to their app store reviews than their revenue is doing it wrong.
With that being said, the rest of your comment is perfectly valid but I do not feel that a business should be bashed because they watch their revenue closely.
My remark wasn't meant to imply that revenue is inherently bad. Simply that undue focus on revenue often creates sub-par products. There are plenty of small software shops out there which need revenue to exist, but create things for people instead of for profit.
My gripe is that apparently checking ad revenue every other week is of greater importance than even checking that the software works. Improving people's lives by providing something useful is clearly further down the importance list.
And some don't even need revenue - a la Linux / Rails / many open source projects.
I agree with your comment overall; however, I wanted to touch upon the following quote.
> how can you ... only notice [your app is failing] because you checked ad revenue? Sorta implies where their focus is, neh?
In what business is revenue _not_ the primary focus? While I understand the importance of product quality and customer service, as well as the correlation between these factors and revenue, a company that's paying more attention to their app store reviews than their revenue is doing it wrong.
With that being said, the rest of your comment is perfectly valid but I do not feel that a business should be bashed because they watch their revenue closely.