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What’s the point in adding more products if they are neither unique nor higher quality?
Is this an example of an app that isn't unique or high quality?
Yes, according to apple.
Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
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Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#52I have been using the Samsung store for a little while and am shocked by the overwhelming number of low quality apps that are stuffed in there. Long live the walled garden for Apple.
Unfortunately, the app store is already full of duplicate, horrible apps. Blocking one more or less is not going to make a difference.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#53I guess the free market has spoken and what is wants is no more free markets. Apple is shooting itself in the foot with this. More choice in products is always better than less.
> More choice in products is always better than less.
Not if your market gets flooded with low quality products resulting in the loss of consumer confidence in your market.
The 80s video game crash was partly caused by that.
But I suppose the effects vary. I’m afraid to buy from Amazon due to reading about the amount of counterfeit products in their store but it hasn’t dampen Amazon’s sales.
P.S. In certain markets like games, clone games can be a problem. It disincentivize innovation. Why work so hard tuning and balancing a game with unique mechanics when a clone with the exact same gameplay will just come in and take your sales by undercutting you - since they don’t have the level of expense you do. A walled garden can protect games from cheap knockoff clones.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#54Poor apple is running out of disk space. Simply can't host another app.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#55> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.
And apple calls itself an innovative company. They say no more lightbulb apps forgetting it took Edison 5000 filaments to find the best one. Naturally if you trust one dev for one job, and not to ruin the app, you will likely trust them for another, category saturation be damned. I don't see much benefit for users when the manufacturer dictates what developers are not to build for users based on some archaic first in…
In many cases it would make sense, but flashlight apps? They're literally an on-off switch for a single system resource. There's nothing that you can add to them to improve the experience.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#56I have been using the Samsung store for a little while and am shocked by the overwhelming number of low quality apps that are stuffed in there. Long live the walled garden for Apple.
Unfortunately, the app store is already full of duplicate, horrible apps. Blocking one more or less is not going to make a difference.
It's true that in practice 1000 horoscope apps or 10000 horoscope apps is not going to make a difference for the user. Maybe apple is afraid it can saturate their review process.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#57Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#58> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.
Proposal: When a new app is submitted in a saturated category, poll the oldest N apps for usage and developer activity. If one of them is below a threshold of relevance then mark it for removal and allow the new app to replace it.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#59I guess the free market has spoken and what is wants is no more free markets. Apple is shooting itself in the foot with this. More choice in products is always better than less.
> More choice in products is always better than less.
Have you tried to buy any electronics from Amazon/Ebay recently? Same products listed tens of times from likely same distributors (or maybe actually many distributors fighting for scraps?). Tiny differences in naming for SEO purposes flood the first few pages of results.
3 listings are better than 1 (for competition / keeping price reasonable). 100 listings are not better than 3.
Similar thing happens on appstore, just slightly different methods. You can't even search for the exact name anymore, because the ad and the first result will be something completely different.
Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
#60> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.
Proposal: When a new app is submitted in a saturated category, poll the oldest N apps for usage and developer activity. If one of them is below a threshold of relevance then mark it for removal and allow the new app to replace it.
This is a really good idea -- I have apps in the store that I haven't touched in 5 years that still get downloads but I have no idea if the app even works any more and I don't care to check