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The "wring all the money out of the market" theory explains Hey and Fortnite, but not the many, many apps that receive arbitrary rejections, like this recent HN
by millstone 6y ago
The "wring all the money out of the market" theory explains Hey and Fortnite, but not the many, many apps that receive arbitrary rejections, like this recent HN browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652
This arbitrary friction of "what if the user searches for covid" is applied to useful software, but not Candy Crush clones. So naturally the store fills with shit. Even in the free app tier!
In some weird way, this shows it's not all about the money, since they're fighting to keep out the quality free stuff too.
- kbenson 6y agoWell, who wants to pay for something when a good free alternative exists? And if people aren't paying, how is Apple going to get their 30%? Free apps are only in Apple's interest as much as they think it makes people like their platform more. I think they care less about that then they used to, since there's so many different things pulling and pushing people to use iOS already.