Ask HN: On Apple's App Store, why are all the ads deceptive?

20 points

5 years ago

I just started using an iPhone for the first time, and used the App Store to install my apps. Why the hell are all the results so bad?

For every single app name I searched, the first result was NOT the app I was looking for but a direct concurrent. Type Amazon? Get Zalando. Type Netflix? Get TikTok. Type foo? Get bar.

Wtf is going on? I thought Apple was proud of how curated their store is? How can they let this happen?

Example with Spotify:

- App Store - https://i.imgur.com/w4J9BHK.png

- Play Store - https://i.imgur.com/m1CMARq.png

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