Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
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Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#2They changed that: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/09/apple-adjusts-app-store...
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#3The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happens to them.
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#4The New York Times ran an article yesterday covering the same topic. I don't have a WSJ subscription, so I don't know if they reference the New York Times article.
"How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls", Sept 9, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/ap...
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#5The New York Times ran an article yesterday covering the same topic. I don't have a WSJ subscription, so I don't know if they reference the New York Times article. "How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls", Sept 9, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/ap...
HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20916809
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#6This article is from July, would appreciate a title tag.
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#7The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happe…
My question is, why aren't the folks at the platform companies who do this worried about biting the hand that feeds them? Haven't they seen platforms get pilloried before? Aren't they worried about alienating developers and decreasing the value of the platform?
Or is it the death of a thousand cuts, where each product manager thinks "ah, just this one time won't hurt"?
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#8The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happe…
Then what’s the point of even building an app if it’s going to be ripped off as soon as gets traction?
I sometimes wonder what the iOS ecosystem would look like if Apple took stewardship of the App Store seriously. If developers weren’t constantly under threat of some bogus copycat app or IP theft from Apple, what would that do the app ecosystem? It’s hard to see how it would hurt Apple, but perhaps I’m blind to the downsides.
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#9The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happe…
Then what’s the point of even building an app if it’s going to be ripped off as soon as gets traction? I sometimes wonder what the iOS ecosystem would look like if Apple took stewardship of the App Store seriously. If developers weren’t constantly under threat of some bogus copycat app or IP theft from Apple, what would that do the app ecosystem? It’s hard to see how it would hurt Apple, but perhaps I’m blind to the…
One obvious downside would be that Apple could no longer copy the most successful apps and make money from them.
Re: Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors
#10The world of atoms is the same as the world of bits: you really want to control the means of distribution. Uncreative product managers at platform companies target the most successful apps first. You can pick the winners of the evolutionary process, take a skim while you're learning and then copy them with something using private APIs. I don't think that's wrong necessarily but people seem shocked every time it happe…
This is why distribution should be divorced from creation. From cable boxes to phones.