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Originally Posted by crabFish
Could you please compress this for me - you're saying stores are taking the responsibility of selling the small business due to their own lack of rescourses to market themselves or the other way around?
Sorry - I don't have the time to digest that article myself...
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I'm sorry, that's just the first article I quickly googled up on the subject; I could have found a clearer one.
Popularity doesn't dictate where a product is placed in a store; it's exactly the other way around. Negotiating for shelf space and location is retail marketing 101. Every distributor negotiates this with the store, even to the point of simple payola. They play hardball on this because they know that the product's visibility at the point of sale is the single most important determinant in sales, and there's no effective substitute.
For lots (most?) of us, the app store market is like that.
