Comments on: Should Apple Add Genius Recommendations to the App Store?

By: striatic

striatic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:32:12 +0000

it might help.

i'd be quite happy if fart apps were offered to people who liked collecting fart apps, and photo apps offered to people who liked collecting photo apps, navigation apps to people who want to navigate and so on.

the problem is that you'd probably get offered a lot of redundant apps.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:00:15 +0000

Does Apple currently have any time restrictions on the success of apps – such as discontinuing apps that don’t sell so many by a certain time… or discontinuing apps with low ratings?

If not, they should be treating apps like any other store treats inventory… if something sucks, take it off the shelves.

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:16:16 +0000

I agree with brad something needs to be done. The fat either needs to be trimmed or a better way to wade through the muck of crapps should be developed.

By: luxorhotellasvegas

luxorhotellasvegas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:19:46 +0000

Improve the search engine, that will boost you up

By: Brad Zimmerman

Brad Zimmerman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:08:46 +0000

God yes. Anything, ANYTHING! Anything is better than the way it is right now. Though, as many have pointed out, the search could be VASTLY improved. The ability to search by rating, downloads, deletion/rejection numbers, to have multiple terms in the search or boolean search, etc. The app store worked great when there was less than 1000 apps. Now it is unwieldly and unappealing.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:07 +0000

Maybe apple should get rid of the crapps and not allow developers to add a list of other apps to thier descriptions so they pop up every time someone searches for any of those other apps. Schemes… Grr.

By: thekevinmonster

thekevinmonster — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:24:13 +0000

I’m not really sure about this genius recommendation stuff. That seems nice for music and whatnot – it sometimes turns you onto things you wouldn’t have otherwise noticed – but applications would be tricky.

For example, as a male, I might totally want to listen to some famous ‘girly’ song (please don’t take that chauvinistically, I’m just making an example), but if Apple recommended a pregnancy app to me… boo urns. They’d have to know a lot about me to know that I’m male and have no women in my personal life who aren’t literally just friends.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:13:31 +0000

Just fix the search, it’s pretty much useless right now unless you know exactly what app your looking for.

By: app guy

app guy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:44:37 +0000

i agree. better search would be the best option. searching for apps kind of sucks right now. but adding a genius option for apps would sort of help.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:05:33 +0000

I think better search is the way to go. I don't really care what apps other people are buying.

An App Genius just sounds like a lot of spam to me. For example, if I download the Facebook app, I'll just be bombarded with every lousy photo app.