Im not usually someone who posts negative stuff, but my god has the Appstore gone down the shitter.

For context, for the last ~3,5 years I wasn’t really actively using any iOS devices. I had an iPad but used it rarely and only really as a Video machine. But now I’m setting up a XS I got for a killer price used (<60€) and of course I looked into the Appstore what the hot new Apps are. And my god nearly everything either constantly asks you for a subscription to use basic shit, is slow af or full of ads.

For example the „Favorite of the week“ an App called iScanner in my case took 4 seconds (!) to show me anything, which an is abysmal launch time, then shows me the Google ad tracking dialog followed by a clicking the „next“ button 5 times to show me nonsense company propaganda, followed by dialog to subscribe for 4,99€ a month. For a fucking document scanning app. And Apple has the gull to put this garbage in their weekly curated recommendations! And this isn’t the only example. 80% of Apps I downloaded today were removed within 5 minutes.

I’m honestley smitten by how bad things seem to have gotten. Really the only saving grace is that Apples own built-in Apps have gotten really good, in most cases to the point where downloading something else seems unnecessary. But still things seem to have taken a nose dive over the last 3 years.

Also to more active Apple users whats your way to find high quality Apps?

  • aluminium@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    its not quite the same as on Android with the Playstore, but you can enable a feature called „App Downlods“ which automatically syncs your installed Apps among your iOS devices. Its under Settings -> App Store -> App downloads

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      8 months ago

      I’ve done that, but this is mostly an issue when I’m on my Mac and the links open in the AppStore and say it’s not compatible with my Mac.