50 billion downloads - now that sounds like a lot!
Yet it's still not Utopia for many devs - 579,001 apps out of a total of 888,856 apps are not downloaded very often.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23240971
App Store 'full of zombies'
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App Store 'full of zombies'
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If it sounds simple, you have not grasped the complexity.
If it sounds simple, you have not grasped the complexity.
Re: App Store 'full of zombies'
On the appstore you have a lot good programs, some very good programs and a gazillion of crap.
But a least in the "real" world crap is less linked, less referenced, not discussed in forums, blogs, independent reviews, etc.
You rarely know it's existing. So it's less apparent and you found the good stuff relatively easily.
In the appstore, excluding some short list of dubious relevance, all is thrown into the same bin and to your face every time you are looking for something, or browsing.
The crap actually suffocate the good titles, and to find something useful you have to navigate in a sea of less than mediocrity made by people actually not having something to offer and trying to beg some cents through iAD, which puts them just a small step above spammers.
This "I want free money too" is the spirit fueling this crap-production, and Apple seems to embrace it enthusiastically, and the bulk of the "numbers" cited above is built here.
So it's not surprising a smaller portion is what constitutes the actual downloads, and an even smaller portion is what bring the real money to some of the developers. I would also guess a 70% of what downloaded from the appstore ends up deleted or forgotten.
But a least in the "real" world crap is less linked, less referenced, not discussed in forums, blogs, independent reviews, etc.
You rarely know it's existing. So it's less apparent and you found the good stuff relatively easily.
In the appstore, excluding some short list of dubious relevance, all is thrown into the same bin and to your face every time you are looking for something, or browsing.
The crap actually suffocate the good titles, and to find something useful you have to navigate in a sea of less than mediocrity made by people actually not having something to offer and trying to beg some cents through iAD, which puts them just a small step above spammers.
This "I want free money too" is the spirit fueling this crap-production, and Apple seems to embrace it enthusiastically, and the bulk of the "numbers" cited above is built here.
So it's not surprising a smaller portion is what constitutes the actual downloads, and an even smaller portion is what bring the real money to some of the developers. I would also guess a 70% of what downloaded from the appstore ends up deleted or forgotten.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again ?"
Re: App Store 'full of zombies'
That's why I don't like app-stores, 85% is for braindead users.
Oh wait... so the presented apps fit 85% of the user base
Seriously though, the other day I tried to find Codea on the Apple store. Had to dig through several pages looking at junk first...
Now I have a hard time getting the zombie pictures out of my head.
Actually it got worse... yesterday evening I "started" watching Plan 9 from Outer Space on YouTube - "started" because I can only take 15 minutes at a time
Oh wait... so the presented apps fit 85% of the user base
Seriously though, the other day I tried to find Codea on the Apple store. Had to dig through several pages looking at junk first...
Now I have a hard time getting the zombie pictures out of my head.
Actually it got worse... yesterday evening I "started" watching Plan 9 from Outer Space on YouTube - "started" because I can only take 15 minutes at a time
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Alfred Hitshock