Comment on: “Gravity is worth asking about”
> So as well as being annoying at the moment of seeing them, ads in the AppStore are directly contributing to the general enshitification of apps.You can even cut the word "apps" from the analysis here, the appstore just gets most of its money from games which are pretty much slot machines.That's exactly why every time they promote the appstore somewhere, they put a productivity app as an example, they would like to avoid to be classified with gambling regulations, which is essentially what they are.
Comment on: “Gravity is worth asking about”
The worst thing about Apple AppStore ads is they create a who-can-pay-more rises to the top situation, where previously it was more based on merit.And In order to make an ad campaign make financial sense, you MUST have a subscription app. Because just getting one download will cost you at least $3 which is already over the cost an app used to cost.and your conversion rate to paid might be only 10 or 20:1. So you need to make $30 per customerSo as well as being annoying at the moment of seeing them, ads in the AppStore are directly contributing to the general enshitification of apps.