Fear of Apple

Post by fpgeek » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 1:56 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #168

chrramirez wrote: post #123

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You could also publish on Android or the web and have access to a "the global audience". Comparing the App Store with 20 years old methods is a fallacy. To be realistic you should compare using the Android/Mozilla/Windows/Web distribution methods.

The Android model i.e. the Google model is now the same as Apple's. Only it has the ability to sideload applications which let's be honest as primarily been used for installing pirated applications.

Post by gcb0 » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 2:03 AM UTC

Spooky23 wrote: post #103

firloop wrote: post #56

This article summarizes the epitome of my experience as an Apple developer. I'm 17 years old and a developer on the app store. The App Store feels opaque and like a black box where I submit builds with little to no feedback or control. I get paid when Apple decides, and could be eradicated from the App Store at a moment's notice. I realized early on that being featured by Apple was unlikely, and have adopted a sustai…

Your experience is the price of admission to gain access to a global audience. The low barrier to entry is why you're fighting for pennies. Twenty years ago when I was in high school, I worked at CompUSA. They sold a lot of software in their day... in my region of the country, 40% of software sold passed through our store's door. To sell software at CompUSA or similar retailers, you needed to interface with a publish…

Post by fpgeek » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 2:19 AM UTC

shimfish wrote: post #104

ChrisLTD wrote: post #88

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There are a lot of ideas out there (and in the article) Apple could implement. Here's a few I remember off the top of my head: * Improve App Store search results * Remove the top lists and blunt the 'rich getting richer' effect the lists amplify * Put their share of App sales on sliding scale, so you only start giving Apple the full 30% after you've reached $X in sales

* Improve how? Isn't that the whole discussion? * That will just amplify the effect of featured apps and then you lose all meaningful organic app discovery and a large chunk of the meritocracy of the store. * Great but that will probably not make a huge difference.

Post by cozzyd » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 2:20 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #168

chrramirez wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could also publish on Android or the web and have access to a "the global audience". Comparing the App Store with 20 years old methods is a fallacy. To be realistic you should compare using the Android/Mozilla/Windows/Web distribution methods.

The Android model i.e. the Google model is now the same as Apple's. Only it has the ability to sideload applications which let's be honest as primarily been used for installing pirated applications.

Post by walterbell » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 2:27 AM UTC

mavdi wrote: post #212

guelo wrote: post #207

You're a sharecropper. It doesn't matter how much you pour your heart and soul into someone else's platform it's still their platform. They don't owe you anything, they care about one thing, maximizing their profits. People sometimes appeal to the large corporation pleading that helping the "ecosystem" will make more money for everybody. But this is not necessarily true. There are many situations where screwing over…

Well said. I made the mistake of investing in a closed ecosystem once with Adobe and Flash. They pulled the rug out from under their developers (Flash was dying, they said it wasn't and then it died anyway and they dropped it like a sack of potatoes)and I promised myself not to EVER invest any time on any closed platform. I don't even use PaaS systems as much as possible as we've seen what happens when they go bust.