Apple’s App Store is a “Warehouse of Shit” says David Heinemeier Hansson. DHH, known for being a little “outspoken”, has a few outspoken views in that interview.
To a degree, I agree with him. There’s a lot of shit on the store. But then the Internet has been hosting apps out there for decades and there’s hundreds of times more shite on the Internet than there is in the App Store.
So, he’s not wrong but it has to be taken in perspective. The Internet is NOT full of Magic Unicorns. Neither is your local games store. Nor your local supermarket.
There’s a lot of shit out there.
(also worth noting that 37Signals are expanding their iOS development team and already have some apps in the Warehouse of Shit)
They just need to open up a search API to the app store, then my complaints about it will go away 🙂