We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
Actually; now that I think about it, from a user perspective I also really dislike the App Store.<p>I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things, maybe there was some new shiny (often beautiful) program to do something really well. The experience was on the &#x27;better than passable&#x27; side, nobodies favourite interface maybe, but certainly not terrible.<p>But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there (unless sent there by a company website in the case of iOS); this was around the time that Apple Music was being foisted down my throat. I&#x27;m not sure if there&#x27;s a correlation there.<p>I always suspected there were dark patterns at play in the App Store though. Although every program is reviewed, probably only 2% or less of them become popular, and if you are popular, boy, are you popular. the design paradigm is self-fulfilling. (&quot;most popular&quot;&#x2F;&quot;highest grossing&quot;).