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A bit surprised it's not higher than that. Who browses the App Store?

• DenisM 7y ago
  Are you forgetting search? I think most people download what's hot and the rest are searching for a given term.
• bogwog 7y ago
  I believe the scientific term is "a metric fuckton of people". Just look up any stories from people who had their apps featured on the store. I think the reason for the distribution is just due to the terrible discovery on the Appstore/Google Play. It's completely hopeless to rely on users stumbling across your app on the store, and the only real way to get users is by advertising/paid user acquisition. The problem with that of course is that you need significant funding to run a successful ad campaign, and "the little guy" is not likely to have that funding nor the knowledge/experience. And of course just like websites have learned how to game the Google search algorithm, they can do the same for the app stores, which the top publishers certainly have done.
  • Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y ago
    I frequently go hunting for fun new games or old gems I've missed. The play store is consistently awful. I've been seeing the same awful games and apps advertised too me for years. I want to see new games and apps, not just new games and apps from massive sweat shops pumping out garbage, which is what I get now. Virtually every app or game that I install is discovered outside off the play store. It's blatantly clear to me that Google caters to the big companies at the expense of innovators. So much for don't be evil or whatever that slogan they never honored was.