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> I suspect we will see a similar thing happen to Apple’s App Store over time. Already the terrible curation makes it hard to find any quality content in Apple
by JadeNB 5y ago
> I suspect we will see a similar thing happen to Apple’s App Store over time.
Already the terrible curation makes it hard to find any quality content in Apple's App Store. (I'll never understand why it's so hard to get a search for the exact name of an app to return that app first.) I shudder to imagine how bad it could be if they were incentivised to make it bad.
- btown 5y agoI've always suspected, but never can confirm, that this incentivization is already the case: the reason why app search seems so bad is because revenue trumps any other aspect of relevance, and spammy apps generate more revenue out of unsuspecting users.
- JadeNB 5y agoI thought the same as I was typing it, but I was going for "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence". It wasn't that Apple App Store search quality gradually declined, as you would expect from a slide towards evil; as far as I know, it was terrible right out of the gate.