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In an "app store" context, the apps don't serve you; you just generate content/engagement for them. The apps you're looking at don't WANT you to be informed bec
by jrootabega 6y ago
In an "app store" context, the apps don't serve you; you just generate content/engagement for them. The apps you're looking at don't WANT you to be informed because you might choose not to use them. These notes are just a formality standing in for forced automatic updates. Spotify on Google Play is particularly insulting. They basically tell/shame you that you should just always update without caring about the changes.
- coldtea 6y ago>In an "app store" context, the apps don't serve you; you just generate content/engagement for them. This is a non-sequitur. There are all kinds of apps in an "app store" context, and the apps I use serve me very well, thank you. I also don't generate any "content/engagement" for any of them. Whether apps have good changelogs or not is also not a factor of whether the apps are in an app store or not. You maybe meant to say "social apps" as opposed to "app store" apps.
- jrootabega 6y agoI guess I'm focusing on the ones at the top of the food chain, and the what I think is the predominant relationship in app stores, not necessarily the social ones. Eg the Microsoft ones in the article