See also: ads for apps in app stores.

These companies effectively monopolize app distribution on their platforms and then make discovery so poor that developers who try to sell apps in their stores must pay for ads in those same stores.

▲

teekert 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Apple should really be ashamed of itself. But alas, corporations don't have shame, Steve would have been ashamed though.

	▲	visarga 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		App Store is a wasteland, I don't think there are more than 100 good apps in millions. All want in-app-purchase, none is fair to give me an upfront price. I don't want for example my kids being bugged to buy apps that cost $100/week.