{"id":635,"date":"2010-07-07T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-07-07T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T03:15:05","slug":"worthless-on-an-unimaginable-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/worthless-on-an-unimaginable-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthless on an Unimaginable Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are other App Farms we know of\u2026. One example is Brighthouse Labs with <strong>4568 Apps, all virtually worthless<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Picture-1066-499x364.png\" alt=\"Brighthouse Labs in AppStore screenshot\" border=\"0\" width=\"499\" height=\"364\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2010\/07\/05\/app-store-app-farm-steal-your-money\/\">Zee, writing for <cite>The Next Web<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time wrapping my head around that number. Nearly five thousand &#8220;apps&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/148apps.biz\/app-store-metrics\/\">Near as I can tell<\/a>, it&#8217;s a solid 2% of <em>the whole App Store<\/em>. With an (optimistic) 5-day-per-app approval time, it would take Apple <em>86 years<\/em> to approve them serially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are other App Farms we know of\u2026. One example is Brighthouse Labs with 4568 Apps, all virtually worthless. &#8212;Zee, writing for The Next Web I have a hard time wrapping my head around that number. Nearly five thousand &#8220;apps&#8221;. Near as I can tell, it&#8217;s a solid 2% of the whole App Store. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[479,167,168],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-crapware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}