App Rot
30 Jul 2014 • marco.orgMarco Arment:
Quality, sustainability, and updates are almost irrelevant to App Store success and usually aren’t rewarded as much as we think they should be, and that’s mostly the fault of Apple’s lazy reliance on top lists instead of more editorial selections and better search.
The best thing Apple could do to increase the quality of apps is remove every top list from the App Store.
Yep, I know Gruber posted this exact quote, but for once I had this in my blogme mailbox before Gruber posted. I do believe it would improve things if updates and continued maintenance were more relevant to App Store success, but unfortunately that’s not how it looks like things are trending.