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Apple's App Store is on pace to add 1 million new apps this year, most are AI slop
www.techspot.com/news/113213-apple-app-store-inundated-low-quality-vibecoded-apps.html
TechSpotApple's App Store is on pace to add 1 million new apps this year, most are AI slopData from Sensor Tower suggests that app submissions to the App Store have risen steadily over the past few years, after bottoming out at around 420,000 in...
You know how those AI slop apps show up in Apple’s bottom line? Just the same 🤑
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
It does threaten their brand image though
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
If broken slop apps crowd out the good, actually usable apps so the App Store just becomes a cesspool of useless garbage, they make no money as people wil abandon trying to find a tool for their problem.
Replying to @kalleboo@lemmy.world
I hate to break it to you but the AppStore has been a cesspool of useless shovelware for over a decade now. There isn’t a whole lot of good at this point to crowd out