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While it would be awesome if the app store would be actually good at app discovery, that is unlikely to happen. Instead you have to brand and advertise your app
by z3t4 9y ago
While it would be awesome if the app store would be actually good at app discovery, that is unlikely to happen. Instead you have to brand and advertise your app outside of the store. See the app store as something like "apt-get install". The user needs to know what he/she wants before going to the store.
- makecheck 9y agoThat’s just it though — when I type in an exact name, it may not even show up in the first couple screen-scrolls of results. I can easily see many potential customers just giving up after a page or so and assuming that the app isn’t in the store, especially since Apple is known to pull apps for various reasons. This means that even if something outside the store mentions your app, you’d better hope they included a direct link to the store and not just the name.
- marcosdumay 9y ago> See the app store as something like "apt-get install" You know, the first place I search for desktop software is on the apt repositories. Even when I'm looking software for Windows (then I repeat the names on Google to see if they run there). Searching in aptitude is much better than on the web.
- z3t4 9y agoTo be fair, FOSS repos are easier to organise as devs wont use dirty tricks like fake reviews to promote their apps. Kinda like the meta keyword in the early web.