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Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by c1sc0 »

wozniacki wrote: post #17
dazne wrote: post #14

Looking for relevant apps in the Apple App Store is a growing problem. This should be a feature built within the App Store. Why can't Apple do the same? Why do they need another application/service to do the "app discovery" for them?

The App Store search is ( and has ) always been a farce. I don't think I've ever not not used Google to search for the relevant app and then jump to the Store to "Get" it. I never see analysts charging Apple with sheer negligence in these things. It's not for the lack of resources. They have warchests both here and offshore. Why they don't get behind these pesky problems beats me. I mean these are elementary things.…

Nothing else explains ... what about "culture"? "Services" is a bit of a curse-word at Apple. The cool kids at Apple are in product design & UI. If you are top-notch backend/services talent, who you gonna join? Google? Or Apple?

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by codyb »

Knowing of Apple's review process for each app (and each update) and seeing the number 1.4 million made me wonder how many employee's Apple has reviewing.

My initial guess was that it must be quite high but a little research [0] turned up some interesting results. It turns out the app review team is pretty understaffed and has to deal with absolute trash all the time. It also clarified the pornography policy, which, according to the article, is a way to expedite the review process. I wonder if the strictness of the policy came about because of the clogged app review process or just happened to help alleviate that particular process after the fact.

Of course, this is relatively anecdotal, coming from one former employee, and published in 2012 but I found it interesting. I do respect Apple's unwillingness to compromise on quality here.

[0] - http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-it-really-sucks-to-...

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by TwoKows »

smackfu wrote: post #38
TwoKows wrote: post #31

I develop apps for friends and family, and offer them on the app store for the curious. I have used Pinterest in the past to post screenshots, and a few customers have mentioned they saw it on Pinterest. Despite the phenomenal FUD, no one ever says they can't find an app they want. They try out the top 5 and pick one. Or make their own if they are industrious. Huge numbers of shovelware apps aren't really a problem,…

FUD? So you search for "twitter" and try the top five apps. #1 is Twitter's official app. So they get a point for that. #2 is Instagram. Close but no cigar. #3 is TwiGrow which looks like some kind of scheme to get more followers. #4 is Pic Jointer, an app to join photos together. #5 is Happy Park, a theme park game. It doesn't get any better after that. Waze, Flipboard, emoji keyboards. I don't know how far you have…

99% go with #1.

Its a twitter client, it works, why bother with anything else?

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by coralreef »

TorKlingberg wrote: post #25
wozniacki wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny you should say that ! I came across these images less than a day ago. Here is an image of what looks like a worker in China manipulating App store rankings using an array of some hundred 5Cs. http://i.imgur.com/EWyVh0X.jpg And here is an image purportedly showing the prices for a Top 10 spot in Apple's App Store, achieved through ranking manipulation. http://i.imgur.com/TZuf1iP.jpg [1] This disturbing image of…

They probably only affect the Chinese App Store. The stores are separate, and the Chinese one is censored.

They can just proxy through to the US and use US app store accounts.

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by wozniacki »

wozniacki wrote: post #17
dazne wrote: post #14

Looking for relevant apps in the Apple App Store is a growing problem. This should be a feature built within the App Store. Why can't Apple do the same? Why do they need another application/service to do the "app discovery" for them?

The App Store search is ( and has ) always been a farce. I don't think I've ever not not used Google to search for the relevant app and then jump to the Store to "Get" it. I never see analysts charging Apple with sheer negligence in these things. It's not for the lack of resources. They have warchests both here and offshore. Why they don't get behind these pesky problems beats me. I mean these are elementary things.…

Ha.

I wasn't even too far off when I predicted this. Looks like Apple has hundreds working on the car,per WSJ.[1]

[1] Apple Has Hundreds Working On An Electric Car Design, Says WSJ

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/13/apple-car/

[2] Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-titan-car-project-to-chal...

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