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Re:Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU by lapcat on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:35PM (#44391053)
Tier 1 has only exact match search.

That's fine with me. All of my empirical evidence over the years suggests that my customers are coming mostly from the outside, and Apple is not bringing me many customers from inside the App Store.

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Re:Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU by OptionOfT on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:51PM (#44391848)
With the web becoming more fuzzy it has become acceptable to other products when you're searching for a specific brand.

But when I want to buy Grey Poupon Mustard, I don't want to see Heinz etc. If you don't have Grey Poupon, I don't want to see anything.

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Re:Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU by seec on Saturday June 28, 2025 @01:01PM (#44406252)
That's exactly how it is. Outside of a few viral apps, most of the rest are word of mouth or blog post/reddit/YouTube recommandations. Apple has very little to do with an app success which is why it is egregious they ask so much for the "privilege" of using their App Store (you don't have any other choice anyway).
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