2019-09-09
New from @jacknicas and me: How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products — an analysis of search rankings of more than 1,800 apps across 13 keywords since 2013, using data from @SensorTower https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Apple says it's now handicapping its own apps in App Store search results after analysis finds they have ranked first for at least 700 search terms
If you opened the App Store on an iPhone in May 2018 and typed “podcast” in the search box, you would have seen something like this.