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Comment by TorKlingberg | Hacker News Reader

Is there really no better way to put an Apple app store review online than as a series of screenshots?

Possibly. The reviews shown in the store are localized to your country, to unless they have an option for viewing all reviews regardless of origin it'll be impossible for me in Sweden to read US reviews, e.g.

You can switch to the different App Stores by clicking the flag button in the bottom right corner in iTunes. You won’t be able to buy anything but you can read the reviews. There is, however, as far as I know no way of linking to individual reviews and you apparently can’t copy or even just select text.

You can't switch in the iOS App Store App though.

yes you can - just logout and re-login using your id from another country. To get an id from another country use logout of everything in iTunes, flip to that country, sign-up and choose a payment type of 'none' along the way.

Thanks for the hack. I'll try it out some time.

The thing is though, why do I need to jump through hoops to get meta-reviews?

The iTunes Store is displayed as web pages within a deficient browser (iTunes or the iOS app). It's the web stripped of its greatest utilities. Worldwide participation and annotation, extensibility, customizability etc.

Agree on that. I was reading it from my ipad.. I tried to scroll down and it didn't work. I thought it was a bug where the javascript didn't work on the iPad or something.. but just before giving up, I saw the little thumbnail at the top and realized they were screen shot.

Part of the quest. I too was reading from the iPad.

From a comment in the article, you can view the review in iTunes (link launches iTunes): http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewUsersU...

Yes: transcribing it. I wish the OP had gone the extra mile, but I'm glad this review was shared.

I thought it made it more entertaining. It wasn't hard to read with my laptop.

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