“Tim Cook just handed the keys to the Apple App Store to Senior VP Phill Schiller. Will Schiller bring order and intelligibility to Apple’s app jungle?” By Jean-Louis Gassée asks for Monday Note.
“Ministration of third-party iOS, watchOS, tvOS and OS X apps [have] been transferred from Eddy Cue’s portfolio into Schiller’s expanded bailiwick,” Gassée writes. “Cook didn’t appoint Schiller because the App Store worked too well and made developers and customers too happy.”
“Apple developers have incessantly complained about the Store’s ills, from the capricious enforcement of opaque rules and pricing, to missing promotional features such as trial periods and returns, and on to unreliable user reviews and ratings. Recently, Mac developers’ complaints have grown louder, with some slamming the App Store’s door and going back to the open market,” Gassée writes. “I have no idea what Phil Schiller’s expanded responsibilities will bring us, nor do we know when we can expect a change — only in myths can the Augean Stables be cleaned in a day — but I join the crowd of Apple developers and customers who wish him success.”
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