A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery

Re:A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery by tempodox on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:08AM (#9576377)

I don't know about Google, but I can't believe how Apple, the “design is how it works” shop can leave such a gaping hole in a place where it conspicuously matters. Every casual AppStore visitor immediately realises that they have no chance in hell of finding anything. First Apple boasts how many million apps they have on the store, then they make 99%+ of it unreachable. Bummer.

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Re:A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery by softdev12 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @11:56AM (#9577163)

I also find it extremely misleading when the stores quote statistics such as "over 93 percent of all ios apps have been downloaded every month" as proof that people are finding the apps they want. What they don't disclose is that the majority of these downloads are probably just 1 time downloads by the app creator on their own device.

http://www.padgadget.com/2013/06/10/50-billion-apps-download...

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Re:A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery by tempodox on Thursday May 21, 2015 @08:18AM (#9582157)

There is a saying that springs to mind, “Never trust a statistic you didn't fake yourself”.

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