Comments on: The Dirty Little Secret of Apple's App Store http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Reality: Not As Many Actual Apps In The iPhone App Store As You’re Told http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217700 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:41:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217700 [...] apps in its iPhone App Store, and points out how misleading this is, because a few providers are uploading bulk apps. These are really one app but they're differentiated by pulling different content from the web in [...]

]]> By: james braselton http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217699 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:26:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217699 hi there well i saw a coool weather app for $0.99 or $2.99 but it was the coolest app for ipod or iphone but when i tryied too get the app it was a 3 station weather station of the maximum 3 station home weather station wind speed wind direction rain fall temputure and humidity if i find it againe i will buy it

]]> By: pip http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217698 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:54:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217698 I think this is exactly what microsoft are trying to avoid…the last thing they want is a bloated marketplace filled with cheap and nasty items that are useless. Imagine the number of useless applications if they let anybody do whatever, and then post in within the itunes marketplace…

]]> By: theflew http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217697 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:27:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217697 I think the problem with the 60K apps is the fact most platforms would have for example a weather app that allows you to specify any city not multiple apps targeted to a specific city. I keep hearing template app (that is the application). Specific instances are just configuration data not an additional app. A web browser isn’t 1 billion separate apps just because you can go to different websites.

]]> By: Submitted to the iPhone App Store! « CityStream News http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217696 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:43:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217696 [...] interesting articles on the App Store last week: The Dirty Little Secret of Apple’s App Store gigaom.com These are typically local search or travel apps written by a single publisher. Molinker is one [...]

]]> By: Lance Bledsoe http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217695 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:53:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217695 “app” is an abbreviation for application, which is just another name for a piece of software. In this case, an iPhone app is a software application that runs on an iPhone. (Many are games or otherwise intended as entertainment.)

]]> By: msearchgroove » Blog Archive » DATA POINTS: Lots of App Downloads, But Not Only For Apple; US Mobile Users More Into Media Than Europeans; Entertainment Companies Into Mobile Ads; Facebook Tops on Mobile Web; US Consumers Don’t Care Abou http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217694 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:31:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217694 [...] applications (though that figure has been questioned by some, as it’s inflated by so-called “bulk apps”). [...]

]]> By: Dave http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217693 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:07:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217693 Methinks someone had trouble finding something to blog about. This “report” is akin to a blurb from TMZ.

]]> By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217692 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:33:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217692 Let them count them as apps, and then Amazon can count each e-book sold as a new kindle sale using the same logic.

]]> By: iPhone-Apps: Zahl überbewertet? http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217691 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:16:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217691 [...] Vormachtstellung des Appstore zur Konkurrenz allenfalls geringfügig. Beispielsweise bietet laut GigaOM alleine MoLinker 800 Apps an, die allenfalls als etwas aufwändigerer Offline-Reader für Wikipedia [...]

]]> By: The Reality: Not As Many Actual Apps In The iPhone App Store As You’re Told | dv8-designs http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217690 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:43:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217690 [...] apps in its iPhone App Store, and points out how misleading this is, because a few providers are uploading bulk apps. These are really one app but they’re differentiated by pulling different content from the [...]

]]> By: zato http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217689 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:12:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217689 Om Malik wrote: “I, for one, believe that all template-based apps should be counted as one. What do you guys think?”

Om, just go ahead and count them by whatever method discredits Apple the most. Isn’t that the way Microsoft would want you to?

]]> By: Earth Air Sea http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217688 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:50:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217688 Om, great find!

After all, book reader apps, should they be counted as one app, or as hundreds of apps. After all, with book apps, who cares about the content. it is the application that is important, not the content, right? After all, if I purchase the newest Stephen King book and get something else instead, it won’t matter to me, right? A book is a book.

Come on, Om, use your brain. These need to be treated as separate applications. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE SEPARATE APPLICATIONS.

If you count these applications as one, then where do you draw the line? Lite and Pro versions? PG and R versions? What about applications with identical functionality? Should we consider Tweety and Twitterific the same application because they have identical behavior?

Get back to reality Om, and write about something interesting. Your latest posts have been tired, weak, and IMO ridiculous.

]]> By: Gadget Sleuth http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217687 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:48:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217687 I think 1/4 of the apps out there duplicate functions in one form or another, so this is a moot point really.

]]> By: Debby Newton http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217686 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:06:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217686 Please forgive my ignorance, but what is an “app”?

Thank you.

]]> By: Brian http://gigaom.com/2009/07/15/the-dirty-little-secret-of-apples-app-store/#comment-217685 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:47:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=59002#comment-217685 Om,
Great find. I don’t it matters to the loyalists of that platform as no doubt they will dismiss it as a so what.

However, it does matter to developers…Facing 65000 apps, how do I get discovered.

Lastly, it matters to the analysts who try to discern the truth when deconstructing their statements.

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