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Apple Removes 11 Categories From the Mac App Store Categories Tab [Update: They're Back]

omglolbbq said:
Good riddance. It was a confusing number anyway.
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Yeah because all Finance fits under Business and where does News go?

This is a stupid choice as it eliminated the runnings for many types of apps as #1 under "Finance"... now they have to compete head on with numerous apps under "Business" including "news" and other.
 
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mcfrazieriv said:
Yeah because all Finance fits under Business and where does News go?

This is a stupid choice as it eliminated the runnings for many types of apps as #1 under "Finance"... now they have to compete head on with numerous apps under "Business" including "news" and other.
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News . . . is its own app? At least if you're running up-to-date Mac software.

And yes, I would think Finance fits under either Business (about finance) or Utilities (personal finance).

So far as the affiliates program mentioned, I thought that was for the better, as well. I know YouTubers lamented losing a nickel when they linked to an app, but I was never clear why they should get a nickel for linking to an app they had nothing to do with, in the first place. Better to keep the revenue with the developers and Apple.
 
Betamagic said:
As a developer of 'News Explorer', I'm unsure to which remaining category I should reassign my app. Business? Social Networking? There was really nothing wrong or confusing with the removed 'News' category. Apart from that, more developers will reassign their apps to the remaining categories, which will probably result in an overcrowded confusing mess.
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As a developer of an app under news as well I can only assume Apple feels there is no place for RSS with their Apple News these days. It took nearly a month of painful back and forth to be approved in the store dealing with “but Apple News”... feedback relating to it registering as a feed URL scheme despite not supporting RSS and that my app duplicates functionality of their app. Again, how? They don’t do RSS.

It might be a bit early but sales yesterday have already plummeted.

willentrekin said:
News . . . is its own app? At least if you're running up-to-date Mac software.
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Except Apple News isn’t available in most countries and dropped support for RSS/Atom years ago.
 
Superhai said:
I think the categories should be removed altogether and developers could rather assign some keywords to help searching.

For an example there are a gazillion camera apps with filters, and I find the developers put them not always under photography, but rather “Social Networking”, “Productivity “ or “Graphics and design”.
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Agreed.
Using tags would seem more beneficial than choosing one primary category and then that's it...
 
All of the adblockers now suck. Right after High Sierra, whatever Apple did killed off the previoud good adblockers, now we have to scramble to find one that works without screwing up parts of websites
 
Hmm, weird. Still showing 21 for me, and this is on 10.14.1, and after a system restart today.
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GaryMumford said:
I'm not shocked by the changes, I'm shocked that people actually use the app store!
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Agreed - How are we supposed to find apps? I do a key word search type of thing, but the results are always polluted with irrelevant hits. Categories are helpful. They should make 100 more categories. If I want simulators, there should be a category for that so I can "Browse". If I want a specific type of calculator, it would be nice to have a category too.

What am I missing? How is it better to remove the categories?
 
interstella said:
When in Safari go to Safari...Safari Extensions. How to find them by opening App Store? They're in the "Develop" section.
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The page that opens from safari’s preferences is a curated editorial piece and only has a few extensions compared to what’s in the store. You have to write a story and request being added to it just like being featured in today or anywhere else on the store. As for the developer category that’s likely to only contain development related extensions. You’ll find plenty under utilities and elsewhere too buried deep in the unavigatable maze that is the Mac App Store. You’d be better off to search for safari extensions and hope for the best with how the store is currently setup.
 
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Sad. I used the categories section as a training session for selecting emojies.
 
Enclavean said:
You only get that one “get started” list though. Where is all the rest?
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You’ll have to search and hope they have extension in the keywords.

I don’t think Apple sees extensions as something standalone anymore. The native app extensions are designed to be bundled into apps and communicate between themselves and the app unlike the legacy extensions. Heck they even removed the options support that showed up under preferences and now you have to handle that from your app instead.
 
charlituna said:
You think they wouldn’t just keep doing that as keywords. Of course they will.
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They would, but with if you chose a couple of keywords, you could add "photography, social networking" for an instagram focused camera app, or "photography, productivity, video" for a camera app with professional photo and video editing possibilities. I know that neither approach is really best, but today looking at a category is not particularly beneficial for me at least.
 
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