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It's not just discovery. The land grab is over and established apps are well entrenched. There was a huge first-wave advantage for mobile apps. We just barely c
by radley 13y ago
It's not just discovery. The land grab is over and established apps are well entrenched. There was a huge first-wave advantage for mobile apps. We just barely caught the end of it ourselves, so we're doing ok.
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- gdubs 13y agoYou're right, absolutely. For newcomers, it's an uphill battle to market even if there's no competition in the space.
- ghshephard 13y agoThe quality apps will always stand out. I'd tried a bunch of note taking apps before vesper came along - and it put them all to shame. I think I've tried every podcast app out there - and they are all really, really cruddy. I spend 10-15 hours a week with iCatcher, and it reminds me of my Palm Treo 650 - It's the best of the bunch (for me), but it still manages to seriously annoy me every time I use it. If marco gets good traction with his design team (Pacific Helm again?), I'm sure he's going to blow away the "quality" podcast-player market. Only problem is, the market for people who are looking for quality podcast players is probably in the tenths (or even hundredths) of a percent of the iOS users. But, if he makes Overcast free.... I'm very interested in seeing how he manages to In-App charge for a free podcast player.
- melling 13y agoIt's hard to justify a lot of expense in marketing when you're getting 0-$1.99 per install. And that's for the lifetime of the app.