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Miller: Apple and Google disincentivize rich web apps to protect revenues
“Apple, they don't want you making web apps or applications for the web. They want you making them for the Mac and the iPhone so they can tax you when you do it through the app store. And also surprisingly, Google doesn't want you making stuff more native and i…”
Pincus: Zero of 40,000 new App Store games sustained top 50 ranks
“You know, there was something like 40,000 new games launched last year in the app store and zero, you know, became top 10 hits and zero even sustained top 25 or 50.”
Singhal: AI tools will run across all app store software to fix bugs
“There's gonna be like some super skill that's gonna run against every piece of software that's in, in the app store. And it's gonna basically go in and it's gonna fix them all. And then they're gonna get released. They're gonna be like, oh, this sucks. It's ju…”
Bier: Hitting #1 in US App Store can now require 300K daily installs
“It used to be, like, a 100,080 to a 100,000 installs but now you have these companies that are just spending extraordinary amounts on ads and, or injecting it into one of their other apps. So between Threads, Timu, and all these other apps that are kind of spe…”
Conrad: Quibi's model required ranking top 10 in App Store forever
“The math of Quibi, like, did require us to, like, from day one, land in the top 10 and stay there forever. Like, the model would have worked if we could do that.”
Rachitsky: Google Gemini reached number one on the App Store above ChatGPT
“So just last week, Gemini, Google Gemini hit the number one app in the App Store. I have it right here. It's still number one in the App Store. It's above ChatGPT.”
Barrios: Apple Created an App Store Rule Specifically for His Battery-Draining App
“I'm happy to say there is an app store rule that is, was made specifically for me at the time.”
Steve Jobs personally called developers to explain early App Store rejections
“So the executive team at Apple, including Steve were actually calling developers to inform them that their apps were not going to be approved, that they were taken off the off the app store kind of like trying to avoid them going to the press and just like bei…”
Salesforce rejected 'App Store' name because focus groups preferred 'AppExchange'
“Launched AppExchange in like, 2005 or 2006, and we didn't call it AppStore because when we tested the AppStore name and focus groups, customers were like, this is not an AppStore, this is an AppExchange, we're all going to exchange apps and capabilities.”
Idiodi: Every App Store launch must have 25 day-one five-star reviews
“So in every app I have ever put on the App Store, on the day I launched the app in the App Store, they are 25 five-star reviews. I will never launch an app and be like, let's hope Lenny loves it. Let's see who the first person to doubt. On the very first day o…”
Misra: Thousands still use Captions' delisted social network app
“The social network that we had at the time, we actually removed it from the App Store, so it's not available anymore. But till today, there are people, there are thousands of people that are using it, posting on it, and all the different things”
Gaurav Misra built the initial Captions app in just two days
“Took two days to build. We put it out there and it immediately took off, right? It was absolutely shocking because I built it on a weekend. We put it out there. I call my close founder on Monday and like, it's at the top of the app store. We're getting like, 6…”
Bier: Sarahah reached number one in US App Store despite being in Arabic
“I looked on the app store and the number one app In the United States was an app called Saraha. And it was for sending anonymous messages by adding a link to your Snapchat story. But the thing that was most interesting was the entire app was in Arabic. The num…”