“Complaints that Apple’s App Store algorithms are broken, often returning nonsensical results for highlighted categories like ‘New’ and ‘Hot,’ have finally caught the company’s attention,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac. “Phil Schiller yesterday responded to tweeted complaints by Mozilla’s Lisa Brewster and Screenshot++ developer Wesley Dyson.”
“Both drew attention to the fact that highlighted app categories in Canada and other countries (though seemingly not the U.S.) were filled with a whole range of similarly-named apps, and that apps whose names put them at the top of alphanumeric sorting remain in the ‘New’ category forever,” Lovejoy reports. “The issue isn’t new, being the subject of a Radar bug report dating back almost three years.”
Lovejoy reports, “Phil Schiller, who took on responsibility for App Stores in December from Eddy Cue, tweeted that the issue shouldn’t be happening, and promised to investigate.”
App Store editors, you had one job https://t.co/uLLOuXTDvb
— Lisa Brewster (@Adora) March 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/pschiller/status/708811114923081730
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MacDailyNews Take: Three years? Inexcusable. Why wasn’t this fixed under Eddy Cue?
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