Good going Apple Congratulation to Apple and all those who made this possible. I wish I had an app of my own in the store.
Still haven't found the perfect flashlight app. Have tried about 3000 of them - still waiting for the perfect one.
Dunno, but there's also probably tens ... if not hundreds... of thousands of apps that no longer show up because their developers stopped paying the yearly $99 Apple dev signup, which is required even if the app is free.
Other popular smartphone systems usually only charge developers once.
It's especially bad for hobbyists and those who put out free apps. In the past, I've made custom WinMo, WebOS and Android apps for my family and friends, something that would cost hundreds of dollars over the years to do on iOS.
Even if you just gave an app to family as your "testers", their test profile would disappear each year if you didn't always give Apple their ~$100.
The $99.00 pays for things like advertising, bandwidth for downloading their app, storage space. If you give it away for free, Apples not making money, they still need to pay for expenses and overhead.
Apple wants people to actively develop their applications. Not put it up in the store and abandon it. Then does not support the next version of iOS so when people install it does not work. That does not make for a great user experience or a good app store.
Just downloaded 1password today.. 18$ ughhh, but I tried a bunch of others and none of them came anywhere close to being comparable
There are plenty of abandoned apps in the AppStore before their $99 subscription period is over.
The AppStore can be a loss maker that drives iDevice sales.
Jobs used to mock the carriers and their walled app gardens, and then he turned around and built an even higher walled garden of his own.
At least the carriers never prevented smartphone users from downloading apps from other stores, or making their own and giving them to friends and family.
About 1000 are worth downloading.
Having 1 million apps is more of a liability than an achievement. Most could probably be replaced with web apps. And Apple doesn't let you search or order apps as well as Amazon lets you search for products or as Google lets you search for web pages.
Apple could invest as much resources into providing the tools and resources to developers to make quality web apps as they do with native apps. Some things can truly only be done through native apps today, but many things could be done with web apps. But Apple doesn't give out anything that's close to the iOS (or OS X) SDKs or Xcode for building web apps.
If they did that, you'd see a lot more quality web apps. IE, Apple could build a store / IAP and iWebs for web apps, so that people would be willing to invest time in making quality web apps since they could generate revenue.
is is just me that hasn't been receiving macrumors's safari notifications at all for the past 2 months? I remember it working so well for the first week then nothing.
Swipe up from the bottom and tap...it just works.
Is is just me that hasn't been receiving macrumors's safari notifications at all for the past 2 months? I remember it working so well for the first week then nothing.
Quantity over quality
Quantity over quality
Just downloaded 1password today.. 18$ ughhh, but I tried a bunch of others and none of them came anywhere close to being comparable