[teeheelol]

I don’t think I’ve ever searched for anything in either of those. I usually google what I want and look for reviews, mostly ending up on Reddit. Then I search for that app on the store.

This is the same with the Play Store and windows store. And physical stores.

Never go into a shop unless you know what you need otherwise you’ll come out with something you don’t need.

[setopt]

The search function in the App Store is also quite bad – it finds only a small fraction of relevant apps, and then throws irrelevant sponsors on top.

Reddit and Google are both better for discovering what to look at in the App Store.

[IndySun]

Yes, a very crucial point, the search is abysmal. The search has no user filter bar trivial things. Related - iTunes store searches used to allow searching such categories as composer, bpm, label (iirc), and other details, but were removed in some iteration prior to 'music' replacing it.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

I go into a shop not knowing what I need all the time. Most people do. This is a weird ideological hill to die on.

[IndySun]

You can see everything the real shop has to sell. You can touch, try on, test, taste any of the real things before you decide what to buy. but crucially in quantities you can humanly handle, your real shop does not sell 1000s of superficially and/or near identical things all called "Camera plus". You can't make your real shop retort.