On: Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor

[borism]

App Store with 200k titles is a plus? Are you serious? How will your dad be able to find anything useful there?

[jsz0 → borism]

Looking at the top free/paid apps is a pretty good strategy, search, or word of mouth. The App Store promotes exploration by having good descriptions/screenshots, categorizations, colorful icons, clean text, etc. It's almost automatic for me to pop into the App Store to see what's new almost every time I pickup my iPad.

[slantyyz → borism]

You're right, the App store is a real problem. Because of the low signal-to-noise ratio, discoverability is less than optimal, even using search.

The only way I find out about good apps right now is through word-of-mouth and through reviews on trusted sites.

Apple needs to fix this.

[jodrellblank → slantyyz]

I'll just call further attention to this - it's highly unhelpful that the reviews can be sorted by best/worst/newest.

Best is always "WOW I CAN SEE MY COMPUTER" style and worst is always "IT DOES NOT WORK GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK".

Actually helpful app reviews would be a massive improvement.

[grinich → slantyyz]

I bet a lot of other companies wish they had this problem.

[CrazedGeek → borism]

The search box?