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Does anyone here really use the App Store? I open it like a few times a year. My apps installed on iOS almost never change. On desktop MacOS I use brew exclusively.
To me the App Store is the antithesis of Apple's approach to design. Look at any of their other products and they are pared down to the bare minimum. In contrast the App Store is a giant cesspit full of garbage software that you have to wade through to find what you want.
I love using the App Store. I have a process:
1. Hear about the app I want from friends, coworkers, the internet
2. Open the App Store. Ignore absolutely everything except typing the exact thing I already know I want in the search bar
You missed step 3 - click the first result, which is an Ad for a some shovelware app with an almost identical name and icon to the real thing and which displays ads.
For example, my friends told me about wordle and said they play it on an app on their phone. I search "wordle" in the app store, and the correct app is the 4th result, after an ad and some other gunk.
My friend told me I should use "Google Authenticator", the first result is an ad for another paid authenticator app that uses the Google logo in its first screenshot to try and confuse people into downloading it instead.
The Apple App Store is actively hostile to users. I thought the point of iPhones was you could give them to your technologically illiterate parents without them getting phished, but I guess those times are gone.
It's gone from "search something in the app store and install the first result" to "google '<term> iOS app store' and click the first result", that gives you better safer results.
I mostly use it to open app I see link to elsewhere. I don't remember last time I went to App Store to explore or search. I usually just search on Google.
The new Liquid Glass UI is horrible but it's The Future so whatever, maybe I will get used to it.
I prefer installing app through Mac App Store if it's possible, at least I can be reasonably sure it won't do weird stuff
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Apple's 1984 Commercial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
One more way for big businesses to crush the small developers who don't have VC money to run ads.
Why not change url to https://ads.apple.com/app-store/help/ad-placements/0082-sear... ?
Another reason why the DMA allowing more competition on the store side is good for users
"To help give advertisers more opportunities"
How about "to make even more money from existing users"