Guys, let's talk about the old rumored App Store Premium. Here is my vision, (Fake vision of the Premium Icon) What is the App Store Premium? The App Store Premium is a new additional revisited App Store. In the App Store Premium, you will have only the best games or apps available to the app store. In two word, there will be the traditional "app store" and the new "app store premium" icons available. How it will work for the developers? It's simple, a quality rules is required for this new category. Every developers can ask to be part of the app store premium but if the application is not responding to the quality chart, the app will not be validate. If the dev want to be in the Premium, they must improve the app. The goal of the App Store Premium is to force the developers to make good app and games. That's all beneficial for the customers, for the "true" developers and can generate more moneys for both camps, because the price can be a little more higher. The App Store Premium will also featured a "random of the day" category where 20 games is randomly picked ( except of those who are allready in the top 25) the change will be made every day to give a chance to the good developers to be know. (that's the moral point !) Benefical for the customers means: no more crap, no one screen app stuff, no more compilated sdk example with one modification to personalize the app and make illegal Mario soundboard stuff in one day, etc... Just good stuff. The premium charts can be : good interface, good design, good sounds, nice design, clear mainscreen, many levels, etc. A quality control just like the Sony PSP or others... All rejected app will be followed by a explication in order to give the chance to the dev team to improved the issue. Other will, they must submit the application in the traditional App Store. I really like the idea... What do you think?
What iMario said. Why on earth would customers go to the "regular" store if they knew there was one next door where they could be certain to get only quality stuff?
@gatorsxrule: I just fake the screen with photoshop, what's your screen about? lol In my own opinion is to force developers to migrate to the premium and to have a perfect clean App Store, for once and for all. That's all we want, right?
If that was what I wanted I obviously wouldn't have made Farting Boobs! I still don't see how this would pan out. Eventually Apple would have to maintain a separate store no-one cares about, and they can't really rename the Premium Store to just the AppStore later on without confusing the public. I believe part of the problem today is Apple's emphasise on sales-figures. Yes, it's the traditional way of compiling these kind of lists but it's also a guaranteed way of getting sensationalist crap up there. If Apple could device some kind of well thought out rating/sales-figures formula and put a list based on these criterias front and centre I believe it would solve most of the problems I as a consumer have with the AppStore.
When I'm mass deleting I always hit the "don't rate" button. I wish it wouldn't ask all the time. Trouble is, I hardly ever rate games I like either. Why have Apple made it easier to rate games you dislike and are deleting, than games you love and want to keep? Going back to the games page to leave a review is stupid.
who decided what goes into the premium section/store - sounds like apple will ask for money to get "premium" access to make this work. then the indie developers are still screwed over. if apple just removed a lot of the junk/spam - we all would be better of.
that they should better have not accepted at the first place.... Another alternative could be category by prices, as fore sure quality titles would probably be higher priced, i will feel better to search and browse the appstore with app of the same calibre within a price range i am looking for, i doubt a fart app, soundboard app or anything similar will stand the ranking if listed among 5.99 or 9.99 app, so maybe we'll start to see some order..into the appstore, finally....
well, why have an extra app when: 1. you can just have a new section in the app store or have a choice when you open up the app store app: standard and premium 2. they limit us to 11 pages, and dont even give the option for folders. i'd be angry to have to even take off one app because o an extra, unremovable, pointless icon.
1. That's also a idea. 2. you skip the idea of a clean new App Store for a icon? Are you serious? so just ask apple to make 12 pages
