Re:Is Google App Inventor A Gateway Drug Or A Doomsday Devic...
by jackowayed on Monday July 12, 2010 @01:15PM
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Doomsday Device? Really Techcrunch? Because all of those WYSIWYG sites were doomsday devices for the web, right?
It's not like the app store (on Android or iOS) is currently composed of nothing but spectacular apps. Most of the apps in both app stores are pretty crappy.
Recommendation is already a very important way that people find apps. I had an iPhone for a year, and I basically never blindly searched the app store. Maybe for a magic 8-ball app. But all the major apps I used were recommended to me by friends with iPhones, mentioned on some blog I read, etc.
And even people that I know that occasionally browse apps browse the "top" pages, which filters out the crap (more-or-less).
Also, it's Google that helped people sort through the crap on the web. If it really becomes a problem, I'm sure they have some people who could develop algorithms to make the good Android apps rise to the top of searches.
Re:Is Google App Inventor A Gateway Drug Or A Doomsday Devic...
by nnash on Monday July 12, 2010 @01:47PM
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The android market is a much smaller ecosystem than the web. If most of the apps there are already useless, as the writer says, this will just exacerbate the problem.
It's not like the app store (on Android or iOS) is currently composed of nothing but spectacular apps. Most of the apps in both app stores are pretty crappy.
Recommendation is already a very important way that people find apps. I had an iPhone for a year, and I basically never blindly searched the app store. Maybe for a magic 8-ball app. But all the major apps I used were recommended to me by friends with iPhones, mentioned on some blog I read, etc.
And even people that I know that occasionally browse apps browse the "top" pages, which filters out the crap (more-or-less).
Also, it's Google that helped people sort through the crap on the web. If it really becomes a problem, I'm sure they have some people who could develop algorithms to make the good Android apps rise to the top of searches.