There's another problem with the app stores ... they're crowded with applications that should have stayed web-sites. I think the problem in the app stores are

There's another problem with the app stores ... they're crowded with applications that should have stayed web-sites. I think the problem in the app stores are more related to the prominence of the front-runners. Nobody goes looking for an app that's the 100th in a category. So the work of marketing is still up to you. If there's truly no long tail, perhaps people will stop creating software to feed these stores (economics says they won't continue to perform tasks that have no benefits) but will that solve the problem or create worse ones?