Universal Just My Imagination or is the Apple App Store going downhill in quality ?

[max2]

Like in the quality of apps I mean.

 

[Slartibart]

How do you measure »quality«? As far as I am “affected” excellent apps like e.g. Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher, Pixelmator Photo, RawPower, Filebrowser, iFont/Fontcase, a-Shell, Carnets, CodeSandbox, FastChart, Draw Things et cetera et cetera only seem to improve. 🤓

Different story is the quality of search… 🤪🥸

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

It has definitely gone up like crazy since it first came out. Search could be improved though.

 

[Svetlin]

Recently there has been a decline in quality of apps in general, not just the Apple App Store. Apps are not like how I remember them.
The one thing i can certainly say is that there are more Ads in the App Store, which is not optimal.

 

[Jessica Lares]

The latest update to a-Shell is amazing (they use the new iOS toolbar customization the way all those types of apps should be using it). That and when they added dash. You wouldn't have gotten that five+ years ago.

I agree that their search is the problem.

 

[Dog Bone Malone]

I find I'm very selective these days before parting with cash for a so-called decent app. I usually try the free version for a few weeks before diving in and paying for the full, add free versions. You can usually get a pretty good idea if you getting quality after a few weeks.

 

[Jessica Lares]

I was setting up the new versions of the Affinity Suite apps the other week and noticed you could put in a serial number from your Serif account. So I wonder if we're just going back to that, with using Apple Pay as an option, especially now that they might force third-party stores on Apple?

 

[Sarah_Baker]

The only thing I find has gone down in quality is the search. When I search for something, too many apps are shown that are not even remotely related to my search field. I believe this can be attributed to App Store Ads. Apple just does not case about refined search ads, it will shove you any ad app just so it can take the money from it's developers.