There are other App Farms we know of…. One example is Brighthouse Labs with 4568 Apps, all virtually worthless.
—Zee, writing for The Next Web
I have a hard time wrapping my head around that number. Nearly five thousand “apps”. Near as I can tell, it’s a solid 2% of the whole App Store. With an (optimistic) 5-day-per-app approval time, it would take Apple 86 years to approve them serially.
5 day/app latency != 5 day/app bandwidth.
But yeah, it would be a heck of a lot easier to defend their role as the final arbiter of quality on the platform if there weren’t a flood of garbage apps being approved every day. For every great app that gets rejected on a tiny HIG technicality, there’s a dozen that barely function and look like they were designed in MSPaint.
Subscribe to an app store aggregator feed sometime; it’s horrific.
Comment by Joel Bernstein — July 7, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
nice post
Comment by Happy Fathers day — May 13, 2015 @ 5:11 am