[thiagoperes]

Since comments on the blog post are closed:

What we need to solve this problem depends exclusively on Apple / Google, since they chose to follow the native / app store path.

- Change App Store discoverability, removing the emphasis on Top ranks - Decrease delay times between approvals - Provide a way to discover from where your users come from

We're also locked to the native approach, which slows down the whole process. This is also a huge drawback for mobile as a whole. For instance, there isn't a easy way to crawl apps like Google crawl's pages.

In mobile, we're basically 'recreating the wheel' in many areas. All this effort could be directed towards supporting web technologies the best way possible, like webOS was doing in a great way.

[cclogg]

I agree 999999999999% with the discoverability problem. Seems like if you were first on the app-stores you just made money because there wasn't much around you... but these days they are incredibly saturated (with good stuff and with crap), so we definitely need a new way to discover stuff.

The stores themselves are really the gate-keepers to installs/sales. Right now it's just about paying to get to the top of the chart (with a product that can stay there I guess).

There has got to be another way other than top ranks, and maybe that lies in a community-driven model of some sorts. Who knows ><