@om (OM Malik) on the 100k apps and the discovery issue

As the number of apps continues to grow, the company will needs to focus on the discoverability of the applications. App discovery is vital for developers who need to sell applications in order to make money. If they don’t make money, then they shift loyalties to other platforms including Android, which is not going to be a pushover.

So what is Apple going to do next? It’s going to increase the “personal” quotient on its App Store. Think the genius feature on steroids! More app recommendations and more automatic discovery of apps based on our usage might be in our future.

via gigaom.com

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Nov 05, 2009

Matt said...

How do you currently look for apps? What areas of iTunes on your desktop or the App Store on your iPhone/iPod Touch do you use to look for apps? What areas do you think are useful and where could there be improvements? I read a lot about things Apple should do, but don't here much other than "they need to hire more people", which does make sense but what would you like those people to actually do? Do you like App Fire's application? What do you think about Chorus?

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