Seems like the cheapest way to get noticed in the App Store is for your app to get rejected.
We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
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#82you can port it over to android then
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Popularizing walled gardens? Yah I'm never going to forget that. ever.
What about LLVM and Webkit?
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#84Send it to the bloggers that be as "The app Apple doesn't want you to see" and use it to your advantage.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#85Apple is curating a ten billion dollar marketplace [1]. Apple will error on the side of maintaining the overall quality of the entire Application selection, even if it means many very worthwhile applications are rejected. I sympathize with huemanapp's developers, but they must realize they are competing for "virtual shelf space." I say to them; keep plugging away and good luck. [1] https://www.apple.com/pr/library/20…
A shelf space analogy doesn't make sense. With a real shelf, there is scarcity. Only so many shelves can fit in the store, and only so many products on a shelf.
The marginal cost of a virtual good is zero. Apple's ability to support apps is effectively infinite.
There are over 1M apps in the App Store.
This is not about "shelf space".
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#86When my son was 2, I found a free iPad app called "My Colours". It was a grid of 12 colors. When a color block was touched, a synthesized female voice read out the name of the color.
For my son, at least, it worked very well, much better than fancier (and often garish) apps, and he was even able to identify "turquoise" because of the app. When I had to reinstall my iPad, I found it was missing from the App Store. Fortunately, I found a backup copy.
I strongly suspect that the colors app was pulled for having been "too simple". If that was the case, it would seem that Apple seems to prefer bells and whistles to functionality.
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#87First of all, that sounds like a really cool idea for an app. I want it. But secondly, of all the app rejection stories I've ever heard... this one is the easiest to fix. Just add some more features, who cares, and resubmit it. Ideas: annotate/categorize the things that are making you happy/unhappy. Maybe have categories/icons for them. (Friends, party, loneliness, exercise, ate well, ate bad, had sex, no sex, fought…
I actually did this policy to get one of my apps in the store. As more people eventually use it (and presumably good reviews roll in), I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed. On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of apple having editorial review over apps for being too simple. The only app which I feel might be too simple is an additional fart or flashlight…
>I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.
This is a really bad idea. While you might think that its impossible, some of your users are going to absolutely love the useless functionality that you added to appease Apple. When you remove it, you are going to receive an influx of 1-star reviews.
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#88Best thing that could have happened to you, given all the attention you're getting now? :-)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which is a love of what they did for the industry Like promoting useless patent litigations of 'rounded corners', 'slide to unlock' nature?
You can pick one part of my answer and isolate it from the rest if you like, but I made it clear: we have varying problems with what they do as a company, but many of us admire their larger impact. If you think controlling slide to unlock compares to popularizing the personal computer and the touch-screen smartphone, I guess we're just not going to agree. But I'm 99% sure we both agree that their patent litigation is…
I used to admire Apple back in the day, not any more. For example, 2011 MBP laptops are having huge problems with the GPU and Apple is saying nothing. The user forums at Apple are overloaded with complaints, but no employee dignifies that with an answer. To me that seems like very bad customer service.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#90Apple is curating a ten billion dollar marketplace [1]. Apple will error on the side of maintaining the overall quality of the entire Application selection, even if it means many very worthwhile applications are rejected. I sympathize with huemanapp's developers, but they must realize they are competing for "virtual shelf space." I say to them; keep plugging away and good luck. [1] https://www.apple.com/pr/library/20…
A shelf space analogy doesn't make sense. With a real shelf, there is scarcity. Only so many shelves can fit in the store, and only so many products on a shelf. The marginal cost of a virtual good is zero. Apple's ability to support apps is effectively infinite. There are over 1M apps in the App Store. This is not about "shelf space".
There is a kind of scarcity in abundance.
When the marginal cost of shelf space approaches zero, another factor comes into play: time spent by the buyers.
With too many shelves in the store, many products will never be bought, no matter how good they are.