undefined | Better HN

0 pointsmysterydip3y ago0 comments

The app store wasn't immediately garbage, though. Apps on smart phones started off being inventive or at least interesting. It was when the gold rushers came in after seeing success that the system became increasingly filled with things designed not to help you the user, but to extract maximum profit from you as a customer.

0 comments

thomassmith653y ago

I only disagree mildly; it's a matter of calling the 'start' of a sigmoid curve.

Already among the earliest apps on the app store, there was evidence of the bad incentives (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich 2008 or https://ifartmobile.com/ifart-debuts-the-worlds-first-fartin... 2009).

Within a couple years of the App Store I remember all manner of Crazy Frog garbage had flooded tech.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsmysterydip3y ago0 comments

0 comments

thomassmith653y ago

I only disagree mildly; it's a matter of calling the 'start' of a sigmoid curve.

Within a couple years of the App Store I remember all manner of Crazy Frog garbage had flooded tech.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse