It's amazing and unsettling to me that these huge sums are derived largely from IAPs for games, something which I hate on the whole. You know, £69.99 for a crate of apples, or the American equivalent. Unsettling, because I presume it's only children who will be suckered into such pointless purchases. It feels like Apple are preying on the weakness of children. The only provisos are that the parents let the children make those purchases, and no doubt Google are just as bad. IAPs where you simply unlock the game are fine.
My brother just showed me a guy that spent $53,000 in one year on The Hobbit KoM.
It's amazing and unsettling to me that these huge sums are derived largely from IAPs for games, something which I hate on the whole. You know, £69.99 for a crate of apples, or the American equivalent. Unsettling, because I presume it's only children who will be suckered into such pointless purchases. It feels like Apple are preying on the weakness of children. The only provisos are that the parents let the children make those purchases, and no doubt Google are just as bad. IAPs where you simply unlock the game are fine.
My brother just showed me a guy that spent $53,000 in one year on The Hobbit KoM.
I think the global App Store charts need to go away or at least be hidden from users and instead give each user their own personal chart. That way the App Store gets curated by the tastes of the customers instead of being manipulated by scammers. It would reduce the zombie app count because it would improve discoverability.
When you visited the store, you wouldn't see a global chart, you'd see a personal recommendation section based on your tastes with popular apps that didn't have titles you owned and didn't have titles you're not interested in. Every day you'd see new apps. You would be able to blank out whole categories as well as very low ranked apps.
Thanks for all the information, depressing as it is ...
I agree about the charts - if there was no top grossing and top sales then it would all be quite different. We don't have top grossing TV sales, or car sales or scanner sales. People make their choices based on what's out there, price, features, reviews and personal decisions based on that. This is exactly how people bought software before the App Store. If Apple removed them there would be no incentive to do anything possible to get in the top grossing apps as only the developers would know how much they made.
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My brother just showed me a guy that spent $53,000 in one year on The Hobbit KoM.
Wow! As a shareholder, I shouldn't complain.
Each to their own.
I think the global App Store charts need to go away or at least be hidden from users and instead give each user their own personal chart. That way the App Store gets curated by the tastes of the customers instead of being manipulated by scammers. It would reduce the zombie app count because it would improve discoverability.
When you visited the store, you wouldn't see a global chart, you'd see a personal recommendation section based on your tastes with popular apps that didn't have titles you owned and didn't have titles you're not interested in. Every day you'd see new apps. You would be able to blank out whole categories as well as very low ranked apps.
Thanks for all the information, depressing as it is ...
I agree about the charts - if there was no top grossing and top sales then it would all be quite different. We don't have top grossing TV sales, or car sales or scanner sales. People make their choices based on what's out there, price, features, reviews and personal decisions based on that. This is exactly how people bought software before the App Store. If Apple removed them there would be no incentive to do anything possible to get in the top grossing apps as only the developers would know how much they made.