It’s a lot better than it used to be.ĥ4% of iOS users surveyed said they prefer a one-time payment over subscriptions.
If you’ve given up on the iOS App Store, I recommend you give it a closer look. It’s going to take a while for users to start trusting the App Store again. I think Apple improved the App Store (a lot) last year with the new iOS App Store (and they look to do the same this year on the Mac). I remember when I would search for “Tweetbot” by name and the app would return five twitter apps, none of which were Tweetbot. I view this as an indictment of the App Store. Only 16% of the surveyed iOS users exclusively rely on the App Store to find new apps.
#Problem authenticating with twitter tweetbot 3 mac#
iOS Customer Preferencesĩto5 Mac linked to this Creative Strategies report concerning App Store user preferences. It’s been going on for years, and I think it is time for Apple to get better at this. They are attempts to confuse the customer to buy the wrong thing and take away sales from the developer that made the thing in the first place. These copycat apps aren’t an attempt to make a competing product. This isn’t one of those things where there are competing interests in good faith. Most recently, John Gruber covered this with the Widgetsmith rip-off.Īpple hasn’t said anything about this publicly, but since they insist on an approval process for apps, it seems only fair that they check to make sure an app is not shamelessly ripping off someone else before they approve it. I’ve heard from several app developer friends bemoan the existence of copycat apps made to confuse their consumers and steal the sales. I think Apple could do a better job at this.
Last week the FlickType developer sued Apple for, among other reasons, failing to police App Store scams. Apple Needs to Get More Aggressive with Scam Apps My problem is that as things stand, the barbarians are getting through the gates. I think they have the right idea of acting as gatekeepers to protect their users. I like that Apple takes a hand in the app approval process. Search has never been good, and there are all sorts of competitive tricks that make it hard for small developers to get any traction. And that’s not the only place the App Stores fall short. The trouble is not Twitter (though charging for two-factor authentication is ridiculous), but Apple for letting these obvious scam apps in.Īpple will get around to banning them once they’re made aware of the problem, but the fact that these apps were ever available is a fail. There was a news piece yesterday about how scam developers made scam authenticator apps in response to Twitter now charging for two-factor authentication.
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