iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps • Hacker News Board

Re: iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 8:56 PM UTC

dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=445145

Re: iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

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Post by drawkbox » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC

Just like pop rewards bad music. But there is still great music and plenty of success beyond the headliners.

Re: iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

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Post by jonursenbach » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:51 PM UTC

The problem here is not with the App Store, but with the showing intelligence level of Apple customers who seem to be too easy to please.

Now I don't own a G1 myself as I prefer the iPhone at the moment, but I haven't heard of problems with the Android Market having this same issue. From what I've seen, personally, the userbase of the G1 is significatly more intelligent than that of the iPhone and aren't going to waste money and bandwidth to download this rubbish.

That said, I need to start developing some apps so I too can have my share in this revenue firehose.

Re: iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

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Post by flashgordon » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 11:40 PM UTC

frankly guys i dont see why this has to be argued... people want stuff, you give it...

i mean we are all in hackernews, what do you think PG's mantra is?

yes i understand it is belittling to think that "talents" of all you smart and genius programmers is going to write some iJunk app, but i say ponder about the futility of that sipping your martinis on a beach!!

Re: iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

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Post by cmos » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 12:06 AM UTC

tstegart wrote: post #9

cmos wrote: post #8

So, if this is actually true, where do you get the 'ad' feeds from that are valid click-thru's? I guess it didn't occur to me to put ad's in free apps..

Making money off ads while giving away something for free didn't occur to you? But no worries. I believe a lot of companies use Ad Mob, although there is another well-known company whose name I am forgetting right now. Combined with analytics suites from a company like Pinch Media, and its possible to have ads served and track click-through rates and impressions.

Well, when you put it like that... :)

Actually, in a sense it never did occur to me that it would be something I would consider. In some way it just seems a bit foreign, and since I myself ever so rarely click on an ad, I have a hard time understanding how a small percentage of people who do click on them can add up to a reasonable amount of income.

I know this is a bit odd, since I'm sure that's a majority of the interest here. But in all reality, I don't have a clue how the ad system _really_ works.

But thanks for the specific names.. that's a start towards looking into it. (I'm aware of the google adsense and such, I'm not that bad off)