Re:App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps
by pocksuppet on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:34AM
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Are there any real examples of apps built on the fly better and faster?
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Re:App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps
by TeMPOraL on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:38AM
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Technically, any case where LLM casually writes and runs a nontrivial piece of code to fulfill your random request would qualify.
Re:App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps
by pocksuppet on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:05AM
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One of the qualifiers was "better"
Re:App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps
by aurareturn on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:03AM
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Many requests on ChatGPT used to be able handled by some app before.
I paste a screenshot and ChatGPT automatically knows to extract the text for me. Needed an expensive/inconsistent app before.
Re:App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps
by ben_w on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:08PM
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Sure, though right now this is due to all the mainstream apps that run on my phone being bloated by ads and tracking from a thousand random analytics firms, plus all the ad-boosted results in the App Store.
There's really no reason I should have found it easier to ask Claude to make me a general purpose card game engine with a bunch of game rules baked in than to be able to actually find the first non-enshitified app, but thanks to all of that nonsense there was.