Is it the Appstore or Crappstore?

[TheSpaz]

They're cranking them out like assembly lines. I hate it when one person creates twenty apps that are the same thing but the name is changed (usually for sports teams). I mean can he try to milk the consumer any more?

I wish there was a way to seperate all the crap from the good stuff but thats impossible because to me what might be good might be crap to someone else

It's too bad there isn't like an exclusive app store where well-known awesome developers can post their stuff so that top quality apps aren't buried in all the fart apps... Of course Apple would decide who has the highest quality apps. For me, personally, I like the apps that look and act like regular Apple apps. Some apps are just so messy and look like they were thrown together... that just turns me off. I also hate crappy icons too. Why can't the developer get someone to make them a nice icon... I don't even look at what the app does if it has a crappy icon. I skim the App Store every day to see if something jumps out at me.

 

[Michael CM1]

I don't know how many songs iTunes has, but I guarantee you that I wouldn't want to own at least 75 percent of them. There are a lot of crappy songs, but it's not that hard to find the good ones.

You need to find Web sites that review or rate apps and then pick what you like.

 

[pilotkid]

I agree, the appstore is turning into a joke filled with ridicules and immature apps. They should come up with another category like "etc" or something like "useless", something to get all the dumb, useless apps out of the mix of apps that actually have a meaning. In someway, I think having apps like iFart is degrading to Apple and iTunes. What happened to the elegance of apple?

 

[Rayfire]

I guess we gotta live with it... I only check highly rated, usable (or entertaining) apps. Voted for the latter though.

 

[kas23]

I don't know how many songs iTunes has, but I guarantee you that I wouldn't want to own at least 75 percent of them. There are a lot of crappy songs, but it's not that hard to find the good ones.

You need to find Web sites that review or rate apps and then pick what you like.

Yes, but you go to iTunes with an excellent pre-conceived idea of what you already want and you search for it. We are constantly surrounded by music. You hear a cool song on the radio/TV/internet/mall/whatever and then you go to iTunes and purchase the song. You don't browse through iTunes reading the descriptions of songs to find out what you want to buy, do you?

It's very hard to compare iTunes to the App Store. There are little other ways right now to know about apps you may possibly want. The average users (not us) likely do not pour over internet message boards trying to find the killer app. Many of them just browse the App Store and read the descriptions of the Apps to pick out what they want. Myself, and likely many others, are finding this harder and harder to do. There's too much garbage on there. You can't possibly browse through the Apps like we once could (many months ago). Now, we have to use alternative ways to find the cool apps. Myself, I have to pour over appshopper.com on a daily basis to find out what is worth my time. I just don't see the average iPhone user going these lengths.

 

[OrangeDog]

I sure as hell would rather put up with a crappy app store than no app store.

 

[Chundles]

It's missing a good office suite. If Apple released a mobile version of Pages and Numbers I'd be on it like a flash. So long as they figured out a p*ss-easy way of syncing your documents.

I've been calling for a iTunes tab for documents. Forget applications and typing in addresses etc. Drag your (supported) file formats into a window of the Files tab in iTunes and they would appear on the iPhone.

Time to give it some real clout in the corporate market. Give it copy paste NOW, give it proper file editing NOW, give it bluetooth data transfer and MMS NOW. The iPhone still feels like a kids toy.

Don't get me wrong I love it, it's the only phone I own or would want to own but it needs to grow up a bit.

The appstore is definitely chock a block full of useless novelty apps. It needs a bit more polish, apps need to be less frivolous and more buttoned down rock solid show-off-to-your-friends without risk of embarrassment good.

There's some great stuff out there but there's also way too much free crap that gets in the way.

They need trial periods for the expensive apps or at least dictate if the app is over a certain amount that a free lite on be made available. So many times I've purchased an app based on reviews, screenshots etc and found it to be pig's swill.

 

[kas23]

It's missing a good office suite. If Apple released a mobile version of Pages and Numbers I'd be on it like a flash. So long as they figured out a p*ss-easy way of syncing your documents.

I've been calling for a iTunes tab for documents. Forget applications and typing in addresses etc. Drag your (supported) file formats into a window of the Files tab in iTunes and they would appear on the iPhone.

That's a fantastic idea. I've always wanted a common file holding area that all apps could access. I hate how you can only keep files within specific apps.

As for the office suite, it seems like something non-technical is holding this up. Is it really that hard to program an app that can view and edit Word files? Maybe Apple is not allowing them so they can profit off their online iWork cloud.

 

[fishmoose]

To me it's still appstore because there are some really good games and apps on there. However the way things are going it's on it's way to be crappstore.

 

[yellow]

It's Appstore, though sometimes seems like Fartstore.

There's a lot of diamonds in that rough. But there's a lot of rough.

Personally, I think Apple needs to re-work the interface a little bit, as the store grows it gets very hard to wade through all those apps looking for what you want (but might not know what you want). And any older apps get lost in the shuffle.

But all in all, there really is a lot of great stuff out there and holes in the market that really really really make me want to get back on my programming pony and take a shot at creating some cool apps.

 

[yalag]

looks like it's half half. Which is quite sad, half the people using iPhones don't like the appstore.....

 

[ivtecDOu]

almost all of the apps are junk. i think from the appstore i only use like three or four apps. thank god for cydia