Im not usually someone who posts negative stuff, but my god has the Appstore gone down the shitter.
For context, for the last ~3,5 years I wasn’t really actively using any iOS devices. I had an iPad but used it rarely and only really as a Video machine. But now I’m setting up a XS I got for a killer price used (<60€) and of course I looked into the Appstore what the hot new Apps are. And my god nearly everything either constantly asks you for a subscription to use basic shit, is slow af or full of ads.
For example the „Favorite of the week“ an App called iScanner in my case took 4 seconds (!) to show me anything, which an is abysmal launch time, then shows me the Google ad tracking dialog followed by a clicking the „next“ button 5 times to show me nonsense company propaganda, followed by dialog to subscribe for 4,99€ a month. For a fucking document scanning app. And Apple has the gull to put this garbage in their weekly curated recommendations! And this isn’t the only example. 80% of Apps I downloaded today were removed within 5 minutes.
I’m honestley smitten by how bad things seem to have gotten. Really the only saving grace is that Apples own built-in Apps have gotten really good, in most cases to the point where downloading something else seems unnecessary. But still things seem to have taken a nose dive over the last 3 years.
Also to more active Apple users whats your way to find high quality Apps?
I rarely touch the App store to “find” something. If I discover I need an App for something, that’s when I just go grab it from the App store.
Trying to peruse the App Store is a nightmare. there are numerous things wrong with it, especially the rating systems and how ratings keep certain apps constantly in everyone’s faces, despite getting horrible recent reviews.
forcing the devs to pay to launch their apps has it’s drawbacks
Wtf, is that actually a thing now?
Yes, you have to pay an annual membership fee to Apple if you want your apps to stay listed in the App Store.
Always has been on iOS, this is not new.
Yup pretty much. Everything is a laundry list of tracking and “live ops” that’s meant to basically consume your entire life. Games are all gated by time barriers unless you pay.
Everything is a subscription and most are ridiculously priced that if you subbed to 8 of them, you’d be out near $100 a month! For a handful of apps!
Apple never cared about the long game. I guess just like every other company. All Cook cared about was dollars. And since they took 30% of everything, insanely priced subscriptions were like gold to them. They also span off browser extensions into pseudo-apps to further widen their reach.
Integrity and quality is absolute shit. Even in iOS. Every version feels like a beta with either graphical glitches or serious bugs. It’s like we’re regressing.
I haven’t been interested in app for almost a decade because there’s just nothing worth my time.
It’s honestly nice to know that there are others that feel the same. As that’s the only way we can hope to shift away from this shitshow of basic thievery.
The Apple Store was and is a great example of enshittification. Apple has everyone locked into it, and they make it impossible to search for what many of us want: free, ad-free, and if possible open source. That shows their values, their values are not your values, and they never will be.
Anyone else sick of people posting in “Apple enthusiast” that start with I am not actively using any Apple products and then launches into a negative spiral?
This is not the sub for you. Go complain in a general tech sub, this is for people deep in the ecosystem not people looking in from the outside
I mean if you like something you gotta be able to critique it. Especially when you can see things taking a turn for the worst.
Also I was using Apple stuff very stuff actively my last phone just wasn’t an iPhone. I still have my iPad, Apple Watch, … .
Also I think I’m not just a hater. As I said, stock iOS Apps have made massive progress and run circles around Googles Stock Apps not to mention that the XS despite being 5,5 years old still is fast and feels quite modern hardware wise.
This comment is the perfect mirror of how dumb people can be. So a guy who’s using an apple product posts something about the product and this community is not the community for him? Since when can’t we criticise a product we use? Should we be blind to the product’s faults? If everyone had this mindset companies could get away with everything. My advice to you is to open your eyes and be more helpful. This dude was only asking for the experience of other users and you helped nothing and were only rude
I’d argue that you’re speaking on app development in general. Your complaints are universal outside of foss.
true maybe, but in terms of FOSS Apps iOS seems like a dessert. Android still isn’t anywhere close to regular Desktop Linux but it got a handfull of good FOSS Apps.
Also maybe rose tinted glasses but things were nowhere nearly as bad 5 years ago
