Crazy how much companies are shitting all over themselves to try and scrape more money together when, in all likelihood, it'll have the opposite effect.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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These days I keep forgetting the App Store is a thing. That’s how important apps are to me anymore. Also, fuck apple for being the tacky soulless corporate monster that it always used to make fun of.
So is this what the tech bros wanted when they said locked in walled gardens where more secure?
I guess they're not taking their big cut on app revenue to offer a good neutral platform.
How can they justify 100|300/year + 30% if not with a moderated neutral platform?
Jesus, just bought an apple tv as a pass through for my living room tv precisely to stop those f*** ads...
Is there a better alternative app search platform that has curated reviews and is community driven, or have bots destroyed everything nice on the internet?
AppRaven is quite nice
I like to look up app recommendations and also just dig deep into the app store.
I found a lot of cool software and apps that are paid once and have forever.
Compared to the podcasts apps that will literally attempt to kill you with video ads while driving.
Apparently according to that one app review.
Only Ads? Not IA powered Ads with an agent managing the apps for you? Oh boy Apple really lost the IA race
Damn. Between Ios26 bugs, liquid UI, and now this, it looks like Apple is speedrunning losing me as a customer.
Oh boy how exciting!
