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Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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Re: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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Post by thisislife2 »

apparent wrote: post #252

The search results in the App Store are ridiculous. Sometimes I search for an app by name and have to scroll through dozens of other apps before finding the one I had searched for. App Store search is as broken as Apple Mail search, if not worse.

I remember Google got sued for this once. It was something about linking trademarked names to an ad - Google allowed a competitor to display an ad when someone searched for the trademarked name on Google. They lost the case or settled (can't remember). Perhaps someone should test this on Apple too, by trademarking the app name and defending it in court. Since there's precedent, Apple is likely to settle or lose and payout.

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Post by leokennis »

atonse wrote: post #8

More and more evidence that the a-holes with spreadsheets are taking over at Apple and they’re completely devoid of any ideas on the software side. I heard someone randomly say that they should replace Tim Cook with Scott Forstall. I chuckled at the idea but this might be a great idea. Apple is having its Ballmer moment. Google did too before AI lit the fire under their feet. Who is going to be Apple’s next Nadella?…

I have slowly but steadily made myself not rely on Apple anymore: files moved to NextCloud, mail and calendars moved to Fastmail, etc.

Platform agnostic choices, because clearly Apple is not to be trusted anymore as the guardian of good taste, and also not anymore as the guardian of acceptable morals (i.e. the insane sucking up to the Great Orange leader).

There are still some services I need to move (mainly, music and reminders) but once achieved I am ready to jump to another platform without it impacting my daily life.

Re: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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Post by willtemperley »

j_maffe wrote: post #256
willtemperley wrote: post #248

It still says AD in big blue letters on the new version. Not really a big deal from my point of view. Still there does seem to be a pattern of ignoring their hardcore fanbase: using Gemini, making ads less obvious, making free apps part of paid bundles. I suspect Apple are getting a lot of pressure from shareholders, given their recent growth has been far lower than e.g. Google. This is not a trend I like and I'm def…

That 'Ad' text is literally the smallest text in the entire app listing UI

It's not. Just glimpsing the top of the article will reveal this is a patently false statement.

Something I don't get about Apple haters is they just spout absolute bllx for no apparent reason. I don't feel the need to defend Apple, I just want a reasoned discussion. I just don't get this attitude.

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Post by robinwhg »

galenko wrote: post #128
seviu wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that, it’s dangerous too specially if you have a family account with a single credit card. Apple doesn’t care about quality.

Yes. My wife’s mother keeps buying crap in game using my card and I have no reasonable way of blocking her from doing so if I want to keep app purchase sharing. It’s insane. Does no one at apple have senile in laws? Or is this acceptable?

I think you could convert her account to a child account. That way, you have to approve the purchases first.

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Post by deafpolygon »

grumbel wrote: post #171
browningstreet wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with this, I've found, is that you end up skipping a lot of things, and then find out later on that features were introduced years ago that you've wished, throughout the interim, existed. It's hard to keep up. I wish there was regulation enforcing background colors for ads.

We should just have an tag in HTML, regulation could then require it.

Yeah, but that's just moving the goal post. They'll find some way to get around having to do it.

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Post by m-a-t-t-i »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #255
apparent wrote: post #252

The search results in the App Store are ridiculous. Sometimes I search for an app by name and have to scroll through dozens of other apps before finding the one I had searched for. App Store search is as broken as Apple Mail search, if not worse.

Amen. App-store search is an offense sham, wasting users' time and stealing from developers. And +1 to pitiful Mail search. But Apple has long suffered from a peculiar learning disability in regard to search. Not only does Finder fail to find files matching search strings that it's showing you IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY... but both Finder and Spotlight provide no option to include WHERE it found stuff in search results…

In spotlight search, you can hold down cmd to show the path of the selected file. And cmd + enter will open the containing folder in finder.

Re: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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Post by hatingisok »

apparent wrote: post #252

The search results in the App Store are ridiculous. Sometimes I search for an app by name and have to scroll through dozens of other apps before finding the one I had searched for. App Store search is as broken as Apple Mail search, if not worse.

Google and Youtube as well seem to have this problem. I find myself searching with "Quotation marks" a lot.
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