Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

Re:Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest by TwoKows on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:00AM (#9038763)

I develop apps for friends and family, and offer them on the app store for the curious. I have used Pinterest in the past to post screenshots, and a few customers have mentioned they saw it on Pinterest.

Despite the phenomenal FUD, no one ever says they can't find an app they want. They try out the top 5 and pick one. Or make their own if they are industrious.

Huge numbers of shovelware apps aren't really a problem, but realize its time to focus on marketing that mediocre app if you want it to sell better.

The market is dictating the success of all those mediocre app developers properly: relegation to 2nd class and app obscurity.

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Re:Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest by smackfu on Thursday February 12, 2015 @10:18AM (#9039088)

FUD? So you search for "twitter" and try the top five apps.

#1 is Twitter's official app. So they get a point for that.

#2 is Instagram. Close but no cigar.

#3 is TwiGrow which looks like some kind of scheme to get more followers.

#4 is Pic Jointer, an app to join photos together.

#5 is Happy Park, a theme park game.

It doesn't get any better after that. Waze, Flipboard, emoji keyboards. I don't know how far you have to get down the list to actually find another twitter client.

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Re:Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest by TwoKows on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:08PM (#9040662)

99% go with #1.

Its a twitter client, it works, why bother with anything else?

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