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Re:Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Crushing Entrepreneurs by kaba0 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:05AM (#33392600)
Side note: the app store is literally beyond useless from a discoverability point of view. It will often fail to display an app which are almost perfect matches and may only show it on perfect string equality.. was that shit made by some junior in a naive way?

Oh and on the front page you get like the exact same selection of apps on the thousandth “our productivity picks” list.. I think they could probably significantly increase their app store revenue not by increasing the price, but by actually showing the users apps they would actually want to download..

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Re:Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Crushing Entrepreneurs by cudgy on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:39AM (#33393952)
This is a valid criticism. The app store provides little, if any, advertising or even ease of discoverability for 99.9% of apps on its app store. Charging 30% or any percentage of sales for that matter within apps when Apple provides little marketing value beyond producing the device and a simple catalog of apps is excessive.
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