macworld.com - 1/26/2009
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The App Store has been overrun with a proliferation of cheap and free apps of debatable quality, but most consumers aren't thinking about what this could mean in the long term.
appleinsider.com - 1/23/2009
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appleinsider.com —
A software engineer who wrote what he calls
a "terrible" and "crap" app in less time than...
it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple's App Store, where it's now generating over $200 an hour ...
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iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps
theappleblog.com - 2/3/2009
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theappleblog.com —
Apple doesn’t want you to find quality apps
in the App Store. Yes, I said it. The...
way the App Store is currently designed, Apple would rather you spend your valuable time discovering apps either by going category by category or making ...
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App Store Organization: One Problem, Four Current Solutions
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What's wrong with buying apps for 99 cents?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchDan Moren over at Macworld has picked up the App Store pricing gauntlet yet again. He somehow equates the iPhone's price dropping to $199 as a symbol that cheap people are shopping the App Store -- as if anyone who's interested in spending $199 on a phone can be called cheap. But he's starting from the right place: from AppCubby's donationware scheme (they sell apps for 99 cents and ask people to donate more on ...
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