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I also use iPhone 4, but I'm glad the changes are here. First - it's been years since the "new releases" view benefitted the developers. Currently, with the am

by kolinko 14y ago

I also use iPhone 4, but I'm glad the changes are here. First - it's been years since the "new releases" view benefitted the developers. Currently, with the amount of new apps for iPhone, the devs get quickly buried on that list, and the launch benefit is minimal. As for the single card view... It's not perfect, because you need to do more scrolling, but on the other hand - you no longer have to decide which app to pick based solely on the icon & name. Say you're looking for a weight tracker app. You can now quickly preview a couple of apps, and pick the one you like the most. In the past you'd have to tap every single one of them - nobody did that. The new App Store, if anything, gives more opportunities to the small guy. There are now new ways to get discovered, and there is more emphasis on search. That's great. Rules changed, and people complain. Some people just don't like changes imho.

bgarbiak 14y ago
It's not perfect, because you need to do more scrolling, The fixed interval animation used while scrolling trough apps is quite ridiculous. Scrolling back to the first app once you got to 4th or 5th takes more time than searching the same thing again. Other than that I agree that things improved. I'm not an iOS developer though.
dpcan 14y ago
"In the past you'd have to tap every single one of them - nobody did that." Sure they did. On their first search for a topic at least. And it wasn't painful. It was nice and quick. The thing about search is, we go back and search for the same thing many times, usually to find apps related to our areas of interest, and Apple seems to have completely neglected this notion. They seem to think that our search is ALWAYS to find something "new". I would search for "platformers" and "platform games" about once every week or two. I KNEW the ones I had checked out previously. I wouldn't click them again, but it was 2 quick swipes to see what's new. Job done. This is now dead. When I search, I have to look at the same stuff, and have to flip slowly through each and every app I've already decided I don't want to download, again, and again, and again. And THIS is something I won't do. Hence, "discovery" is dead. Now, from a smaller developer's perspective, as I have apps in this store... Discovery was critical. Search and the "New" section were important to me. The release-date section under each category was CRITICAL to getting those first downloads. On day 1, with nothing more than a tweet to a handful of followers, my app would see a significant number of first-time downloads from being in this section. It got the ball rolling. Here's my idea/wish: App stores should have an "Introductions" category, and when we submit our apps, we should be able to write a description of our app just for this purpose. We get 1 day in the "Introductions" category, and after that, we're gone. People can feel free to go to this category at any time to see everything that has been released, so they get to see new stuff, and developers get an opportunity to get some initial users.
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by kolinko 14y ago

bgarbiak 14y ago

It's not perfect, because you need to do more scrolling, The fixed interval animation used while scrolling trough apps is quite ridiculous. Scrolling back to the first app once you got to 4th or 5th takes more time than searching the same thing again. Other than that I agree that things improved. I'm not an iOS developer though.

dpcan 14y ago

"In the past you'd have to tap every single one of them - nobody did that." Sure they did. On their first search for a topic at least. And it wasn't painful. It was nice and quick. The thing about search is, we go back and search for the same thing many times, usually to find apps related to our areas of interest, and Apple seems to have completely neglected this notion. They seem to think that our search is ALWAYS to find something "new". I would search for "platformers" and "platform games" about once every week or two. I KNEW the ones I had checked out previously. I wouldn't click them again, but it was 2 quick swipes to see what's new. Job done. This is now dead. When I search, I have to look at the same stuff, and have to flip slowly through each and every app I've already decided I don't want to download, again, and again, and again. And THIS is something I won't do. Hence, "discovery" is dead. Now, from a smaller developer's perspective, as I have apps in this store... Discovery was critical. Search and the "New" section were important to me. The release-date section under each category was CRITICAL to getting those first downloads. On day 1, with nothing more than a tweet to a handful of followers, my app would see a significant number of first-time downloads from being in this section. It got the ball rolling. Here's my idea/wish: App stores should have an "Introductions" category, and when we submit our apps, we should be able to write a description of our app just for this purpose. We get 1 day in the "Introductions" category, and after that, we're gone. People can feel free to go to this category at any time to see everything that has been released, so they get to see new stuff, and developers get an opportunity to get some initial users.

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