I don't know if curation is really the problem. Nearly every other platform has a search that when you search for "Mr Beast" on YouTube or "Elon Musk" on X they know you mean the popular one and not some 2-bit dork's fan page or parody that happens to have those words in the title/keywords.

I think they just (A) have no idea what they're doing when it comes to search and (B) the scamware that fills all their App Stores makes Apple a ton of extra money compared to people finding the real apps which usually are monetized outside the app store due to Apple's absurd revshare.

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leakycap 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't know if curation is really the problem.

A lack of oversight is what I see as the problem, and the solution would require a significant human element.

Expecting a retailer to know/inspect the product they collect margins on shouldn't be a big ask.

The retailer has to know what they're selling, but Apple seems to turn a blind eye to shady listings because of the way Mac App Store results are shown and the lack of useful filtering available to the user.

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thenthenthen 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Lack of care, like previous commenters mentioned, each sale is a sale, and 30% to Apple. It does not matter what you sell. One step deeper and it does matter what you sell: it seems to incentivise spammy apps, why block these money makers?! It is all about money. Nothing else.

	▲	seviu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When we propose alternatives the answer is that they want to protect customers. But they don’t protect their cash cow from massive daily influxes of scam apps. It’s better one million scam apps generating 50k per month and drowning my two or three apps for which I spent months of work than a few thousand quality apps from which everybody would profit. Let’s be real it takes a special kind of mad developer to try to make a business that relies on the AppStore. First if you are unlucky you get rejected on day one or two. And if you aren’t and are wildly popular you risk Apple copying your business model. Because deep down some people at Apple despise the App Store developers and think they can do much better. This has been at the core of Apple culture for ages. Anyway we legit indie developers who care about our products get drowned in irrelevance. Who cares.

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whstl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Nearly every other platform has a search that when you search for "Mr Beast" on YouTube or "Elon Musk" on X they know you mean the popular one and not some 2-bit dork's fan page or parody that happens to have those words in the title/keywords.

Well, that's what you expect as a user and as a technology person, but as the TFA demonstrates, this doesn't apply to Google without an ad-blocker.