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?

  • mmmmmsoup@lemmy.todayEnglish
    610·
    8 months ago

    Anyone else sick of people posting in “Apple enthusiast” that start with I am not actively using any Apple products and then launches into a negative spiral?

    This is not the sub for you. Go complain in a general tech sub, this is for people deep in the ecosystem not people looking in from the outside

    • aluminium@lemmy.worldOP
      71·
      8 months ago

      I mean if you like something you gotta be able to critique it. Especially when you can see things taking a turn for the worst.

      Also I was using Apple stuff very stuff actively my last phone just wasn’t an iPhone. I still have my iPad, Apple Watch, … .

      Also I think I’m not just a hater. As I said, stock iOS Apps have made massive progress and run circles around Googles Stock Apps not to mention that the XS despite being 5,5 years old still is fast and feels quite modern hardware wise.

    • Kiliyukuxima@lemmy.world
      31·
      8 months ago

      This comment is the perfect mirror of how dumb people can be. So a guy who’s using an apple product posts something about the product and this community is not the community for him? Since when can’t we criticise a product we use? Should we be blind to the product’s faults? If everyone had this mindset companies could get away with everything. My advice to you is to open your eyes and be more helpful. This dude was only asking for the experience of other users and you helped nothing and were only rude