2026-01-14 23:10:33

The future of the App Store is looking a lot like Amazon's marketplace. You've got a handful of established players dominating the top shelf—the trusted names everyone recognizes. Then below that? It's an endless wasteland of low-quality knockoffs and drop-shipping garbage cluttering up every search result. The algorithm rewards volume over quality, and discoverability becomes a nightmare for genuine developers trying to stand out. Meanwhile, users wade through pages of junk just to find something worth downloading.

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AllTalkLongTrader

· 01-17 21:08

Damn, the App Store is becoming more and more like a garbage dump. No matter what I search for, it's all fake products. --- Come on, the truly good apps have long been drowned out, it's all just copied and pasted stuff. --- It's just Silicon Valley's crew. As long as they can make money, who cares about user experience? --- Isn't this just the fate of the internet? As long as there's traffic, there will be trash, and it can't be stopped. --- Algorithms leading the way in evil, in an era where traffic is king, who cares about quality anymore? --- I just want to know why they don't learn from TikTok's recommendation system and keep piling up garbage content. --- Now, you have to flip through three or four pages to find the app you want. Ridiculous.

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FantasyGuardian

· 01-17 18:56

Ask yourself, isn't this just the current crypto exchange scene? The number of trash coins and clone coins is exploding.

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SlowLearnerWang

· 01-17 08:37

Honestly, looking at the App Store now feels like strolling down the street, full of knockoffs... If I had known it would turn out like this, I wouldn't have bothered.

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StakeOrRegret

· 01-14 23:41

To be honest, the App Store is now like a vegetable market. Good products are pushed into the corners by big companies, and what's left are all knockoffs.

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