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Now that this exists, it feels to me like it obviously always should have been there. Hopefully this will improve app discoverability for developers, and help m
by MaxGabriel 14y ago
Now that this exists, it feels to me like it obviously always should have been there. Hopefully this will improve app discoverability for developers, and help make up for deficiencies in App Store search.
- hnriot 14y agoI don't see how it will change anything. Search is broken at an algorithmic level, and switching from iTunes.com to AppStore.com really won't help. Much as I wish it would. Apple needs to either spend some of their cash reserve on some search engineers or play nice with google, if apple simply used good as the search engine behind the AppStore it would likely be a win for both companies. Apple sells more apps, google collects more data. By thinking small, apple are losing out every time someone tries to find an app, even using its name, and still the AppStore sometimes can't find it. I know there's some latency issues when something new comes out (who remembers trying to search "google maps" when it first launched a few months back only to find it had not yet reached your search instance), it beyond latency search in the AppStore needs a major overhaul
- nwh 14y agoI'm curious how much their search and search interface are costing them. The App Store iOS application is atrocious; users are more likely to get frustrated and give up than find the application they were searching for.