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We had a similar experience to the one here: https://dev.to/codenameone/google-play-kafkaesque-experience...

Google is worse than Apple in many regards.



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While I'm not interested in getting into a semantic argument around something arbitrary like what "getting the web" means, unless I'm missing something (which is absolutely possible!) I don't think it's fair to compare the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios/id36?mt=8) to the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps?hl=en). One of these is clearly baked for the web, and one of these is not.

Also, as an aside, if I have missed something and there is a better app store experience for Apple please let me know - I just chose the top result searching for "Apple App Store".


> Another case of apple ignoring Google in favor of their own preferences.

Fixed that for you.


Really? Google created their own design language and guidelines: https://design.google/

so it can't be all Apple's fault.


Yeah, they do that to a lot of people, not just Apple: http://thepiratebay.se/legal

The Apple exchange doesn't appear to be a particularly notable standout, really. Gr8pop Ltd is far more amusing because there is some back-and-forth, but still there's not much to see beyond profanity and entertainment value (depending on your viewpoint).


It's a biased selection but, Google's Page Rank certainly says that the public tends to "link" the term 'App Store' to 'Apple' in a pretty consistant manner

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...


The best part is that it isn’t even set up: https://applemusic.apple/

This awkward press release lives at https://learn.applemusic.apple/apple-music-classical

Drop the pathname and you get a nice 404.


Sure looks like a lot of non-Apple uses of this term to me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=10-bit%20color%20-apple



Apple's "search" is pretty crappy WRT seeing what a dev has released

Click on the dev's name and it shows everything that dev has published.

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/google-llc/id281956209


Google couldn't find what he was looking for because it doesn't exist on the web. Take a look at the search with a +retina term:

https://www.google.com/search?q=deluge.app+%2Bretina

Or in verbatim mode:

https://www.google.com/search?q=deluge.app+retina&tbs=li:1

His article says that the answer is in the 4th result, the first that actually includes both of his search terms. But if you read that article, it's actually saying that Twitter's app has no retina support, and Deluge is mentioned elsewhere on the page, with nothing about retina support.


I still hate Apple for buying lala.com. "lala" was my generic google search when testing out working Internet connection. "Lala - where music plays" was something that I was used to see... until Apple shut it down.

Apple clearly hates the web!


Or if someone ever searches for something like your app which happens sometimes:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=iphone%20business%2...

Those are google searches but the same thing is undoutedly happening thousands of times a day in iTunes/App Store.




Word. The other day I typed the correct name of an app into the Apple web search box, no hits. Try Google, first hit straight to the app store.

Last month I posted the John Dvorak piece where he suggests Apple should buy themselves some search - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458892,00.asp ; it features an amusing pic proposing DuckDuckGo http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/429429-apple-isearch-mock...


Yes. Apple still sucks at curation (as does google, as does Steam), and needs to be more consistent here.

Apple has kind of always sucked at search. It's a shame, considering the quality of the rest of their ecosystem.
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