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Originally Posted by LostInAustin
I do agree with you all that this is better. I just think it's a short term solution to the spammer problem. There needs to be a better way for consumers to filter out the good stuff in the noise of crapware out there.
I think Apple is trying this with a Genius type recommendation solution. However, that tends to only target the mainstream stuff, nothing in the long (very long) tail of apps that are good but haven't caught traction.
My main point is that we shouldn't be content with how limited the app store is for presenting our products.
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Totaly agree - and none of us knows what changes are at play... And the appstore is changing all the time so the changes doesn't come all at once...
That said I do believe it's important for a developer to understand that it's not up to Apple to sell your product... It is up to you as a developer (or publishing company) to do that. They're just providing you with a marketplace to sell your stuff.
Have you ever had a product for sale in another store before (not asking LostInAustin - but anyone who feels offended by apples behavior)? Would you ever dream of going into that store and demand your products to be displayed more properly and at the same time expect the only way for your products to sell would be based on the visibility of the products in that store?
Most stores will display products favorably based on the products popularity - kinda like: "As shown in the TV-ad..." or something like that...
Why Apple should have a responsibility to thousands of developers to market their particular app is beyond me... Still they actually does this in their feature-section which is really great allthough I've never been featured with any of my apps. And that feature section is actually more than I would expect from, or have seen in, any other outlet I've been involved in since I started to do games for computers back in 1996...
