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This God-like behaviour makes me cringe. This type of bans and restrictions exist as a result of poorly managed and/or poorly designed system. Ideally any mode
by yawz 13y ago
This God-like behaviour makes me cringe.
This type of bans and restrictions exist as a result of poorly managed and/or poorly designed system. Ideally any moderation should be part of the ecosystem and the decision making should belong to the users. If they want more flappy things who are you to say "No! You can't!"?
Edited to add: Their control should be exercised over precise things like "user interface guidelines" or "use of private vs public APIs", not the type of app or the name of the app. The app stores contain gazillions of ToDo apps. Just because there a few successful ones should we say "No" to ToDo apps?
- castis 13y agoYou may want to re-evaluate your definition of 'god complex'. They're trying to stop a million 'Flappy*' apps from flooding the market. Maybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work.
- yawz 13y ago> They're trying to stop a million 'Flappy' apps from flooding the market.* So what? If you don't like them, don't play. Most of them will never get to 50 downloads anyway. This is natural selection. > Maybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work. Are you sure Flappy Bird was the first of its kind?!?!?
- eropple 13y agoApple and Google shouldn't want a bunch of crap that won't get fifty downloads on their stores.
- TelmoMenezes 13y agoI wonder how Google's search engine deals with all the crap sites that get less than fifty page views a year...
- eropple 13y agoNot a good analogy. Google isn't tacitly endorsing those websites. It is endorsing things in its store, at least to the level of "we think it's worth taking the vig for this".
- 10feet 13y agoProbably prioritises them very low, so they do not rock up in a lot of searches. Maybe puts them on the old server in the corner of the room. There is a website that lets you search minus the million most popular websites, and it is very different.
- castis 13y agoI never said I don't like them, do not put words in other peoples mouths, it's not nice. I am trying to explain the behavior of a process you don't seem to be privy to. Don't get so worked up over something that ultimately doesn't matter.
- yawz 13y agoI'm sorry. I should've been clearer: If one doesn't like them then one doesn't have to play. "You" was not directed to your person. ;)
- corresation 13y agoMaybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work. All of us profit from other people's work, and we all deal in derivatives, including Flappy Bird zero.
- gress 13y agoPlease tell us what management or design improvements would solve this problem.
- yawz 13y agoNow, this is the question, isn't it? I don't have a solution for it. Not yet, at least :). But in doubt, I would trust a community rather than a controlling entity.
- MartinCron 13y agoI personally would like, and would pay a premium for, a redacted/curated app store experience that would hide all apps that were: -Shamelessly derivative garbage (flappy birds) -Manipulative Free-To-Play garbage (candy crush saga) -Immature garbage (fart apps) -Misleading Parasitic garbage (e.g. Microsoft Word "Tutorials") I've come to terms with the fact that Apple and Google can't really keep garbage out of the app store, but I would really love an alternative app store that was garbage free.
- castis 13y agoI would also pay for this service.
- yawz 13y agoBut I think there lies the problem. If you leave it to "someone" or to "some entity" then you get a one-sided impartial judgement of what constitutes "good". Your list is full of big hits. This means that the market responds positively to that. I know people who hates Facebook and would never use any form of Social Media. I respect their view but it doesn't make them "right" as far as the big picture is concerned.
- MartinCron 13y agoIf there's a choice between "someones" and "some entities" and I can find a set curated by critics whose tastes align with mine, that's great. Right now, the app store is essentially a discount retailer: you can trust that the things sold there range from excellent to "probably not criminal". Sometimes I just want to to go Nordstrom, pay a little extra, and browse through a small selection of things that I can trust aren't total garbage.
- ckaili 13y agoThe article specifically mentions Flappy copies that have malicious intent. Perhaps as a user, you don't mind thousands of people accidentally downloading an app and having their personal information stolen or their phones hacked before user moderation catches up with them, but I would suspect that if you were in Apple or Google's shoes, and the app ecosystem were a vital component of your business, you would.
- yawz 13y agoMalicious apps? Fair enough. This is not news, though. I'm pretty sure most of those apps are not malicious. They're just very similar to Flappy Bird.
- sarreph 13y agoIt's just simply a pity that the market isn't as free as we'd like it to be... But we've known that since day one.