iPhone App Store Changes: Do They Hurt Developers?




Most of the Apple faithful walked away happy from this week’s Apple Rock and Roll event announcements this week, except notably at least a subset of iPhone developers.

According to Information Week, the redesign of the App Store that accompanied the release of iTunes 9 could have significant implications for developers, particularly those with apps in the long tail.


The new layout of the App Store focuses on creating a big, scrollable browsing area for each application category, but makes it difficult to figure out how to browse by genre subcategories. In fact it took us a few minutes to figure out how to view them — you can get there by clicking the “browse” option from the iTunes Store home, but as far as we can tell you can’t get there from within a category page (please let us know if there is a way).

iPhone App Store Changes: Do They Hurt Developers?

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