Lulz, why would somebody be typing in the name of an Apple app that they already have installed when they are instead looking for your "indie" app???
You make negative sense.
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Apple Inserting Entries for Its Own Stock iOS Apps and Services Into App Store Search Results
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Lulz, why would somebody be typing in the name of an Apple app that they already have installed when they are instead looking for your "indie" app???
You make negative sense.
K, I'll go search for "little indie note taking app" & see if it tells me that I already have pages installed. Thx.
This is just Apple trying to maintain people within their ecosystem. If people start looking to apps for uses that native apps already provide, it will make it easier for them to make the transition to another ecosystem as they will no longer be relying on an OS to streamline information sharing.
Personally, I have already adopted this out of need as I use devices from differing OS's. It gives me the freedom to pick from the devices that cater to my needs as opposed modifying my needs to what is available from one particular architecture.
Personally, I have already adopted this out of need as I use devices from differing OS's. It gives me the freedom to pick from the devices that cater to my needs as opposed modifying my needs to what is available from one particular architecture.
This makes sense even for people who *aren't* total idiots. What do you do with stock apps you don't need? You shove them off into a folder on the last page of your home screen all to themselves and never look at them again. Is it that hard to believe someone might have done that when they first got an iOS device, and forgot they was there by the time (possibly years later) they wanted one of them?
Now, that's unlikely with a web browser. In that case, you have the opposite potential problem: someone new to Apple who is used to looking for IE, or Firefox, or whatever, and doesn't even know what Safari is because they've never seen it before. "App Store," though, is obvious in its purpose; it makes sense that someone who didn't know that Apple's browser is called "Safari" and looks like a blue compass, not because they're stupid, but simply because they've never run into that information before, would try searching there for one.
Now, that's unlikely with a web browser. In that case, you have the opposite potential problem: someone new to Apple who is used to looking for IE, or Firefox, or whatever, and doesn't even know what Safari is because they've never seen it before. "App Store," though, is obvious in its purpose; it makes sense that someone who didn't know that Apple's browser is called "Safari" and looks like a blue compass, not because they're stupid, but simply because they've never run into that information before, would try searching there for one.
I was hoping this meant we'd finally be able to uninstall stock apps.
D.
Maybe we will be able to shortly It's as if they're preparing to allow an install of stock apps. There were rumours about 'opening up' in iOS 8 so maybe
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