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1. melted+(OP)[view] [source] 2016-01-10 20:00:54
No one has any idea how to run an App Store. Even Apple's App Store is vastly inadequate to sell the gigantic number of apps available on it. Top N apps make out like bandits, everyone else is basically dying. It will always be power law, but IMO the tail could extend quite a bit further than it does today.
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2. woah+ge[view] [source] 2016-01-10 23:38:21
>>melted+(OP)
The App Store is not there to serve developers
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3. melted+zg[view] [source] [discussion] 2016-01-11 00:16:26
>>woah+ge
It's not clear who or what it serves right now. It stands to reason (from simple arithmetic) that the more money developers make the more money Apple will make as well. They do make billions off that store. Making more money means surfacing more apps to more users, adapting to user preferences, employing prediction, etc. Apple doesn't seem to be doing much (if any) of that.
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