App Store…Moving On…
Mar 13, 2009 Author: Wendy | Filed under: CodingI’m moving all my new handheld development away from the iPhone. The app store is too flooded with junk applications causing consumers to lose any confidence in the quality of software they find there. No matter how much time and effort you spend, the drive for a lower price point makes development difficult to justify. There are also instances of some “developers” flooding certain app store categories with fifty of the same application. This is what happens when you get that gold rush mentality.
Microsoft announced their application store the other day and so far I like what I’m seeing. Microsoft restricts the number of applications a developer can release in a given year with each additional application requireing more of a financial investment. I’m hoping this will eliminate the overpopulation of poor quality seen on the Apple app store.
About - Wendy Jones
I am co-founder of KittyCode, LLC, a software development studio in Orlando, Florida and a Course Director at FullSail University teaching iPhone mobile programming.Geek girl, gamer, and Twitter lover. This blog is my outlet, so expect to see posts about my progress, products, and life.
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5 Responses for "App Store…Moving On…"
You are making a mistake. If you develop a good app, you will be rewarded, no matter which platform. At the end of the day, the end-user will decide what is a good or bad application.
Thanks for you comment
I still believe that if you make a good application it will sell, the problem lies in the customer’s inability to find the app in the first place. Most people won’t scroll past the first two pages in either iTunes or on the phone looking for new applications.
The app store has an appetite for gimicky $.99 applications without depth or development time. I’m about to test this theory with a little app I’m going to release.
If I come up with an application in the future where the iPhone is the perfect platform for it, I’ll code it up and release it. I want to put applications on the platforms suited to them, not find a cool platform and force something onto it.
All of the apps I install I find through the web recommended by other users.
Perhaps you just have a marketing problem.
Apple announced that there are now 25,000 applications in the app store as of today. I’m taking a wait and see approach at the moment to see how the changes they’re implementing in the app store affect the marketplace.
I am guilty of only scrolling through two pages and not wanting to look any further. I usually decide off recommendations and won’t go. Plus I won’t spend more than $5 on an app.
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