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> the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort shovelware Wait how does this differ from the appstore?
by Hammershaft 6y ago
> the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort shovelware
Wait how does this differ from the appstore?
- osrec 6y agoAgree - both app stores seem to have their fair share of junky apps.
- LudwigNagasena 6y agoIf you think that AppStore is a wasteland, don’t even look at Play Store unless you want a PTSD.
- jfrunyon 6y agoHaving used both, they're both pretty evenly awful.
- seszett 6y agoThey're both quite awful but one thing that really irks me is that on the Apple Store, every search for something first shows a result from a competitor product. Search for WhatsApp? First result is an ad for Twitter and WhatsApp is the second result, half hidden (on an iPhone SE). Search for my bank? First result is another bank. Firefox? First result is Chrome. Doctolib (the app for taking covid vaccination appointments in France, and the main doctors appointment service in general)? Another one that's probably more or less a scam. Google Maps? You get an ad for Coyote. It wouldn't be so bad if the ads didn't look almost exactly like real search results, and if the actual results were not hidden below the bottom of the screen. The general quality of apps on the Google Play Store might be worse, but this behaviour never happens there. When you look for an app name, you get that app and not one of their competitors that paid more.
- fatnoah 6y agoThe Windows App Store has entered the game...
- Hammershaft 6y agoThe thing about the windows app store is that there is quality, I kid you not, on that store, but the curation and search are both so abysmal you would never know. I have found quality apps on social media for the windows store for surface devices, and then when I search the exact title in the store windows can't find anything so it shows me a catalouge of decade old b movies.