App Store Search Follow-Up
John Gruber offers compelling evidence at Daring Fireball that the artificial boost Apple’s apps were getting in App Store search, as reported by The New York Times piece that I linked to last week, is more likely the result of a lousy search algorithm than a deliberate attempt to promote their own apps. Hilariously, this ends up proving the overarching point even more: If you don’t allow competition then you get bad products, App Store search is terrible because no other company besides Apple is allowed to do it.