Soon app innovation will stifle because only a very few companies are making money. Indie/mid size developers will stop working on innovative apps and start working for bigger risk aversing boring companies.
Biggest reason imho is that these top 25 are one big self fulfilling prophecy: A top 25 position guaranties big download numbers. And to get there you need either a collection of apps already out there for cross promotion or buy lots of ads and installs.
Switching to a metric that indicates quality much like engagement measured by # sessions or # minutes use/month will make quality apps stand out much more.
>Soon app innovation will stifle because only a very few companies are making money. Indie/mid size developers will stop working on innovative apps and start working for bigger risk aversing boring companies.
I doubt it. The real problem with the app store is 99% of what's there is either crap nobody could want or a me-too version of one of the big sellers. People developing that kind of stuff don't deserve sales, and if they drop out of the business, well, no harm done.
Soon app innovation will stifle because only a very few companies are making money. Indie/mid size developers will stop working on innovative apps and start working for bigger risk aversing boring companies.
Biggest reason imho is that these top 25 are one big self fulfilling prophecy: A top 25 position guaranties big download numbers. And to get there you need either a collection of apps already out there for cross promotion or buy lots of ads and installs.
Switching to a metric that indicates quality much like engagement measured by # sessions or # minutes use/month will make quality apps stand out much more.