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Finally.https://t.co/EFBaL54PMt
— ilia kukharev (@ilyakuh) September 9, 2019
This story helps explain why trying to find the app you want in the Apple App Store can be so frustrating. And if you don't feel like reading, just scroll through the incredible interactive graphics. https://t.co/uK4x3jDwoE pic.twitter.com/kCFlVmwKn4
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) September 9, 2019
애플이 앱스토어 검색결과에서 얼마나 자체 애플앱을 우대하고 타사의 앱을 차별하는지를 뛰어난 그래픽으로 보여주는 NYT기사 https://t.co/e1n9AjcLnT 2013년 Music검색에서 스포티파이가 1등이었는데 애플뮤직이 나온 뒤로 23위까지 검색결과가 추락…
— 에스티마 (@estima7) September 9, 2019
i think a big thing we'll still be grappling with years from now was how we spent years uncritically absorbing content via recommendation engines and algorithms and how so many of the choices we thought were our own were really driven by this kind of stuff https://t.co/FKQQk0jRFf
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) September 9, 2019
This is Apple at its absolute worst. Exploiting its monopoly control over the App Store to self-deal their own wares to the very top, at the expense of third-party makers. May the antitrust busters strike at this with furious might. https://t.co/hFJBgoow9o
— DHH (@dhh) September 9, 2019
Great piece by the New York Times showcasing Apple leveraging its control of the App Store to punish Spotify in favor of Apple Music. Also loved the interactive elements of this piece. All around fantastic investigative journalism. https://t.co/4nrHmNohdV
— Sachin Rekhi (@sachinrekhi) September 9, 2019
We analyzed six years of App Store search results and found a clear theme: Apple has been the overwhelming winner for many common searches, even when its apps were less relevant and less popular than rivals'.https://t.co/WMsPYLCJ4G
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) September 9, 2019
Extremely well-done visualization of how Apple uses its App Store control to tie platform ownership into market dominance for its own apps. https://t.co/LtfsTHiTCK
— Anil Dash ? (@anildash) September 9, 2019
Nine times out of ten I feel like fancy animated story graphics are gratuitous journalism awards fodder but this one is great and damning. I think it’s because you know how much you scroll and you’re thinking “I would never have scrolled this far” https://t.co/khJ9UdlA43
— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) September 9, 2019
It's *almost* like app stores are just bad search engines...https://t.co/bAehpj5Mgw
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) September 9, 2019
Speaking of unfairness around Google’s ad/search situation, check out this damning piece on Apple’s nasty practice of stacking the App Store deck in their favor. The part about tanking Spotify is mind blowing. This is what absolute power leads to —> https://t.co/eY0DAQDGIS
— Jason Fried (@jasonfried) September 9, 2019
New from @jacknicas and me: How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products — an analysis of search rankings of more than 1,800 apps across 13 keywords since 2013, using data from @SensorTowerhttps://t.co/hHsZDM0Uz7 pic.twitter.com/R3kjUgVYNx
— Keith Collins (@collinskeith) September 9, 2019
How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products via @NYTimes https://t.co/BURryee2ca
— Erin Griffith (@eringriffith) September 9, 2019
Really interesting analysis of how Apple's own apps have sometimes dominated the App Store, even when they're not related to what people searched for.
— Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis) September 9, 2019
Crazy that Stitcher, a major podcast company, doesn't even rank in App Store search results!!! https://t.co/VedkS1ge40
Seems a bit stupid for Cue to say it wasn’t a mistake that searching for “podcast” in the App Store would show the Compass app as the second result. https://t.co/XlBqPORCF6 pic.twitter.com/7nyM6LdQgh
— Benjamin Mayo (@bzamayo) September 9, 2019
"It's not corrected, it's improved" is the most Silicon Valley line ever https://t.co/nH0iU7fZGJ pic.twitter.com/QO2tjvffSE
— Alison Griswold (@alisongriswold) September 9, 2019
Apple “improved” App Store search after its own apps unfairly dominated resultshttps://t.co/pDd1vlTGSA pic.twitter.com/WsINLijchh
— The Verge (@verge) September 9, 2019
“There’s nothing about the way we run search in the App Store that’s designed or intended to drive Apple’s downloads of our own apps,”
— Pui-Wing Tam (@puiwingtam) September 9, 2019
Apple's Phil Schiller said. “We’ll present results based on what we think the user wants.”@jacknicas @collinskeithhttps://t.co/AuKs0QbAId
The App Store search results are some of the most fought over real estate in the digital economy. In that fight, Apple is the lone referee -- and one of the biggest competitors.
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) September 9, 2019
How Apple controls the App Store is now at the heart of antitrust complaints in the U.S. and Europe.
Warren has proposed that a company can either be a storefront or a seller, but not both. This would address both app stores and Amazon. https://t.co/N6jBdLsYE6
— koush (@koush) September 9, 2019
In July Apple tweaked its App Store search algorithm so that Apple's own apps wouldn't consistently top others, but insists it wasn't a "correction" because it wasn't a mistake to begin with ?https://t.co/Dm4XbHmvMp pic.twitter.com/1DsWztU1p6
— Lauren Goode (@LaurenGoode) September 9, 2019
This is obviously anti-competitive behaviour. By the time we litigate Apple in allowing other business fair access to their platform, some company will find new ways of leveraging their services above all else. It's cat-mouse. https://t.co/qPmE0UtR8q
— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) September 9, 2019
"Oops, we did an antitrust." https://t.co/HXeJpfYbxS
— Ed Bott (@edbott) September 9, 2019
Before Apple Music was launched, Spotify came up first when you typed "music" in the app store.
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) September 9, 2019
After the launch, Spotify dropped to 23rd.
After Spotify complained to regulators it climbed up again.
Damning stuff from @jacknicas + @collinskeith https://t.co/WWaqQ88qAI
Apple says the rankings merely reflect what customers were hoping to find.
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) September 9, 2019
Why do I doubt that Spotify was 23rd on the list of music apps that customers were looking to find in 2018?
@trippmickle and The Wall Street Journal also did a great job analyzing this issue, finding that Apple apps regularly ranked first in an analysis of 600 searches in June.https://t.co/8GfPDHnq0J
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) September 9, 2019
The executives said Apple turned that feature off in July so Apple apps would no longer look favored. Many Apple apps dropped as a result.
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) September 9, 2019
But they denied there had been a problem that needed fixing.
“It’s not corrected,” Mr. Schiller said.
“It’s improved,” said Mr. Cue.
And not only is the acts deplorable, listen to Schiller and Cue flaunt their utter contempt at the implication that they might be in the wrong. Cringe-maddening. pic.twitter.com/y7xtcymLYb
— DHH (@dhh) September 9, 2019
악의 평범성
— Goodhyun 김국현 (@goodhyun) September 10, 2019
자사앱을 노골적으로 밀라고 지령을 내릴 정도로 수뇌부가 꼼꼼한 일은 거의 없겠지만, 자사 앱의 보급률이 KPI에 있는 중간 간부가 신경 좀 쓰라고 한 말을, 실무진이 아무 생각 없이 자기 입장에서 알뜰하게 만든 뒤 모두 잊고 있었을 수는 있겠지요.https://t.co/HQTMoKlggF
Launch of Apple Music saw Spotify tumble from 1st place in Apple App Store to 23rd, says NYT. Top 8 ranked music apps were all.... Apple’s!https://t.co/d2FOkStyv6
— Nicholas Hirst (@nicholashirst_) September 9, 2019
The execution of this @nytimes story is really cool. Also, worth reading, of course. How Apple's apps topped rivals in the App Store it controls https://t.co/9KKvcoM2ka
— Venkat Ananth (@venkatananth) September 9, 2019
Facinating article on how Apple’s Apps stormed the App Store #gamedev #indiegame #appdevelopment #appstore #aso
— Ken Howe (@kenhoweuk) September 10, 2019
↗️ https://t.co/aGsRCSyMfU pic.twitter.com/ZJrvmPHftV
Excellent analysis by the NYTimes showing how Apple dominated App Store search results with its own products: https://t.co/rC0dyNXvA0 I really, really hope they consider doing the same for Google (esp. in realms like video search, jobs, events, maps, etc). pic.twitter.com/ZlDVSnIjcS
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) September 9, 2019
Pretty good take down on Apple bias in store results.
— John S. Boyd (@johnsboyd) September 9, 2019
Apple has a lot more to do here as well as in how default status helps its own apps which are often greatly inferior.
This is likely gonna bite Apple in the ass.https://t.co/lo4Ot1tJTY
https://t.co/xsSI32bPTd Once they did notice, they said, a single engineer decided to change the algorithm. ... (한숨)
— minchul park (@summerlight00) September 9, 2019
Apple has been busted placing their less relevant products above competing products in App Store search results.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) September 9, 2019
Google was fined $2.7B by the EU for doing something similar in Google Shopping. Lucky for Apple they haven't been declared a monopoly. https://t.co/eQRpGts0Wy
Apple “improved” App Store search after its own apps unfairly dominated resultshttps://t.co/pDd1vlTGSA pic.twitter.com/E0eW97A5Ld
— The Verge (@verge) September 10, 2019