Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
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Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#2Even as just an app store user I find the ads for competitors extremely obnoxious.
Search "Overcast" -> top ad is some crappy competitor (not even a good real competitor, but usually some sort of near-scam).
It makes me think less of the competitor and Apple every time I see it, it also seems completely unnecessary. I obviously want the app I searched for. It seems like a feature entirely designed to trick old people.
The other suggestions are also really good, I'd love to be able to pay for big updates (though I personally don't really mind subscriptions for apps I regularly use).
I'm also not sure the web apps are really competition, when something isn't native I tend to think it sucks and choose something else if possible.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#3A great list.
Also: Capping in-app payments (I’m targeting games here) at a certain multiple of cost price, or a fixed amount for free apps, would fix the absurd gaming mechanisms aimed only at extracting more money rather than great gameplay.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#4Even as just an app store user I find the ads for competitors extremely obnoxious. Search "Overcast" -> top ad is some crappy competitor (not even a good real competitor, but usually some sort of near-scam). It makes me think less of the competitor and Apple every time I see it, it also seems completely unnecessary. I obviously want the app I searched for. It seems like a feature entirely designed to trick old people…
> I'm also not sure the web apps are really competition, when something isn't native I tend to think it sucks and choose something else if possible.
Coming from the android world there is a very high bar for a native app for me. I tend to assume the app is garbage if it could have been done just as easily as a web app.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#5All these great things that would reduce Apple’s profits. I’m not even sure it’s too unfair since developers know the state of things going in. It can also get a bit worse since so many developers continue to put out high quality apps despite it all.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#6The survey was great, because it hits basically everything that developers hate about Apple:
* Search Ads
* Documentation
* App Store Review Guidelines
* Codesigning
* Apple Developer Forums
* App Store Review
The only thing missing is bug reporting, and I stuck my response for that in it anyways when they asked what was wrong with their developer tools ("Respond to our feedback!"). Sadly, I think the results of this survey are anonymized so thoroughly that they disappear entirely before anyone at Apple can get to look at them.
(Supposedly the forums are getting revamped in a week for WWDC. I don't have very high hopes, sadly, but I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.)
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#7A great list. Also: Capping in-app payments (I’m targeting games here) at a certain multiple of cost price, or a fixed amount for free apps, would fix the absurd gaming mechanisms aimed only at extracting more money rather than great gameplay.
It's a bit sad. I feel like mobile gaming is in large part dead because of these stupid pay-to-play games. Back in the early days of the iPhone, even the iPhone games were one-time $2 games (and good for that!), while you had the DS where games were $20+ (often more). Now mobile games of quality are mostly dead.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#8The original source is here: https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1271185023744397312
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#9Even as just an app store user I find the ads for competitors extremely obnoxious. Search "Overcast" -> top ad is some crappy competitor (not even a good real competitor, but usually some sort of near-scam). It makes me think less of the competitor and Apple every time I see it, it also seems completely unnecessary. I obviously want the app I searched for. It seems like a feature entirely designed to trick old people…
This bothers me on all search.
Search for of any product on google, 50/50 shot its a different company's item in the first (few) places.
Search bribes are user hostile but developer necessary it seems.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#10A great list. Also: Capping in-app payments (I’m targeting games here) at a certain multiple of cost price, or a fixed amount for free apps, would fix the absurd gaming mechanisms aimed only at extracting more money rather than great gameplay.
It's a bit sad. I feel like mobile gaming is in large part dead because of these stupid pay-to-play games. Back in the early days of the iPhone, even the iPhone games were one-time $2 games (and good for that!), while you had the DS where games were $20+ (often more). Now mobile games of quality are mostly dead.
Apple Arcade was supposed to fix that - it’d be interesting to read a blog post from a developer in that ecosystem to see if it’s actually working.