Doesn't really work when you have 30k programs in a category to filter by the top 25 in them. They should find a better way to categorize it, but if you look at Amazon, they have basically no categorization and it works fine.
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Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Available on the App Store
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Doesn't really work when you have 30k programs in a category to filter by the top 25 in them. They should find a better way to categorize it, but if you look at Amazon, they have basically no categorization and it works fine.
Make one simple thing and charge $0.99. Within a few a hours, 100,000 people download it. You just made $99,000.
There should be more than just 100,000 apps making everyone rich, don't you thinK?
There should be more than just 100,000 apps making everyone rich, don't you thinK?
When the novelty wears off and realization sets in that most of it is, well, novelty and little else. Probably this time next year.
- 2007
When the novelty wears off and realization sets in that most of it is, well, novelty and little else. Probably this time next year.
- 2008
When the novelty wears off and realization sets in that most of it is, well, novelty and little else. Probably this time next year.
- 2009
Maybe *this* time you'll be right?
The App store was open in 2007?
I think there's a lot of really, really good aps available but 100K means nothing without a breakdown of what's currently - in the last three months - been downloaded. That is, how many active apps are being shifted and how many of them are paid for or free.
I still think the app store is by far the best distribution method out there though.
True, but looking at some of the really good apps available via Cydia that were rejected by Apple makes you wonder how the hell they allowed so many utterly useless apps into the store. I get your point, but we all know that there is an enormous gap in quality between the really good apps and 95% of the App Store.
How doesn't it work??? You see the top apps, the most popular. And you can increase the filter number to the top 50. And you can keep cycling down the list of TOp apps: 25 more, 25 more, 25 more, 25 more, etc. I think it's 25 x 4. Whenever an app appears in that list (and the higher it is), that's your first clue that it's worth looking into. What, you want to look at all 30,000 of them??
You can also do keyword searches, browse apps on iTunes, etc. Lots of ways to get informed.
The iPhone. I take Bubba's comments to mean the iPhone. The iPhone is an integral part of the App Store.
As usual we have the wanna-be Mac users who think Apple is the worst thing since sliced bread - but they still use a Mac and they lurk around these forums bashing away.
I'm counting 95 Apps so far on my iPhone and I love it.
100,000 Apps means success, suck it down.
I'm counting 95 Apps so far on my iPhone and I love it.
100,000 Apps means success, suck it down.
Yeah, Apple should really rehash their ads from the 1990's, because that's totally relevant to the 2010's.
It's more like 99.5% garbage. Really, is there 15,000 quality apps? Show me them please. Because I've only seen a couple hundred.
Yeah, Apple should really rehash their ads from the 1990's, because that's totally relevant to the 2010's.
clearly you don't understand my point.
The sheer number of apps is not a good indicator of "success" if Apple is able to let in as many as they want, and most people agree that the vast majority of them are terrible. A better measure would be the sales figures for the most successful app developers who release paid apps, or total downloads for the most popular free apps.
Your point isn't applicable.
Right now, the indicator of mobile platform success is the robustness of app stores. It's all about quantity now. Only over the past two years did such a thing as an "app store" emerge with any kind of public notice. Apple seems to have perfected it (relatively), and not only does the competition have far fewer apps, for many of them their app store paradigm isn't implemented nearly as well as Apple's.
Apple is bragging about app quantity because at present app quantity is a key selling point. It's an indicator of the robustness of your monile platform, whereas only a couple of years ago there was no such thing. There was barely such a thing as a "mobile platform" to begin with.
As the competiton gets their stores on track the focus will eventually shift to other aspects and features. Right now, Apple is milking the App Store feature because consumers have decided the number of apps you have on offer is a big deal. The number of "useful" apps (wow, what a subjective description) vs. "garbage" apps is beside the point. All app stores (for those that have them) will have useful and not so useful apps. The point is that at present, quantity matters.
yep, I definitely agree. Didn't say it wasn't better. The app store is the only reason why I have an iPhone.
It is very much applicable. Much like Windows vs OSX arguments back in the day, the amount of apps favored Windows, while many Mac people claimed who cares about the amount, but it's the quality. The only point in my post was that it's funny and ironic how Apple likes to have it both ways here.
You make good points here. While I don't agree about quantity being all that important, I can certainly see how it is to a lot of people.
Funny and ironic, yes. Surprising, no.
Apple will always brag about their offerings and knock the opposition, regardless of reality. If you want realistic analysis, ask someone who isn't trying to sell you anything.
since everyone is praising the App Store i didn't want to say anything.. looks like you beat me too it.. "we have 100,000 apps... 99,000 of these apps are **** and a waste of time"
Congratulations Apple and thankyou for shaking up the smartphone industry the way you have.
Without the iPhone + App store we would have still been stuck in the dark ages and I doubt that we'd have the awesome competition that has and will develop to compete.
I love Android + the Android marketplace but it they wouldn't exist as they are without the iPhone IMO.
Without the iPhone + App store we would have still been stuck in the dark ages and I doubt that we'd have the awesome competition that has and will develop to compete.
I love Android + the Android marketplace but it they wouldn't exist as they are without the iPhone IMO.
It's funny that Apple bashes Microsoft for touting that Windows had thousands and thousands more apps than Apple's Mac OSX does when it's the quality that counts. Yet, when the App Store has over 100,000 apps and most of those are crap as well, they spin it in their favor
I just find posts like this ridiculous on a Mac forum. Makes you seriously wonder where the loyalty is. It also makes you wonder who's a troll?
That being said, I certainly would like to see some publication where Apple would bash MS for having more apps for Windows. Is it MS's fault that developers make a lot of apps for Windows? How in hell can Apple bash MS for that. Show proof of such statements please. Also, I just love when some of you say that MOST of the apps in the App Store are crap. You have no idea how many are crap and how many are useful. Did you actually view every one of the 100k apps? NO.
I just find posts like this ridiculous on a Mac forum. Makes you seriously wonder where the loyalty is. It also makes you wonder who's a troll?
I find posts like this ridiculous. As some of us that post here own some kind of Apple hardware without 100% brand loyalty you should expect some scrutiny.
Are you saying that anyone that posts here shouldn't ever be negative about Apple?
EDIT - And before you simply label me a troll, see my positive post about this news link