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Re:App store discovery problem. a different take? this looks... by pedalpete on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:53AM (#5993488)
I'm not sure I understand who this is for. The copy reads "Acorn allows you to piggy back off the market leader and give you much higher visibility. With Acorn, the results of a query are shortened to just those apps that do what yours does."

So I can use it find competing apps. That's fine, cut why would a consumer do that? They don't want apps, they want to do something. Seeing a map of a bunch of other apps that are similar to something they already use I think is somewhat useless.

Do people want new apps to do the same thing their existing apps do? Or do they want new apps that change their lives and do something new?? I suspect the later.

Re:App store discovery problem. a different take? this looks... by stephenjames on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:58AM (#5993503)
I am guessing that as a consumer you may want to find a better option to what you are already using or thinking about using.
Re:App store discovery problem. a different take? this looks... by niveus on Friday July 05, 2013 @04:08PM (#5996541)
There's not much info about what it is. It might be a cross promotion network like many of the other ones that exist. If a person is playing a word game, you can advertise your own word game in it (or something to that effect). But like you said, I'm not sure how many people love playing all word games all the time.
Re:App store discovery problem. a different take? this looks... by stephenjames on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:50AM (#5993484)
anyone know what this is?