Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, let's
just have a really quick look at the changes to the iOS 11 App Store.
For the last few weeks a lot of my time and energy has gone to the iOS 11 upgrade.
I know we've known about iOS 11 like for ages but I've never been one to
like join beta programs and everything like that. I usually wait till it hits
and then I deal with everything at the time, so, that's what I'm doing. I'm
dealing with everything at the time. And most of the time, I mean to be honest, I
really like iOS 11. I think it's nice. I used to hate it when we get an
upgrade and then nothing changed. So this is something that's although the changes
are minor, you know, they're not dead. I mean, I don't think they're
that great, but they're still - it's just nice to see this little - things just
change a little bit. I like it. And along with those changes are the big
changes of the App Store. This is what makes submission a bit more difficult.
Alright. So, it's usually stuff like image assets, dealing with some old
versions of ionic and stuff like that. Like just boring stuffs, all will go into
that. But today, what I want to do is have a look at the new - at the new iOS 11
App Store and compare it to the old one. So, I have here my iPad, you should be
able to see the screen of everything going correctly, let me just go into
the App Store. The new App Store icon which is very minimal - minimalistic here.
So, it starts off here with this Today section here, which is -
which is nice. From a user perspective, it's really nice to go
in there and see this - it got these nice and big promotion thing.
So when something's featured now, it's like really featured. And then
of course, when I went into this, first thing I wanted to do was
check to see some of my apps, see how they're doing in terms of search and
everything like that. I struggled to find the search, to be honest with you.
And then of course, right down here at the bottom right hand corner, so
on the bottom here, you got the today tab. I guess they could - they could
feature some things. it's nice. It's bright. It's like nice and big. By the way,
this is on iPad Pro, so it might be a little bit bigger
than - was obviously bigger than on iphone, but bigger than an iPad Air. I just
scrolled down here a little bit, I see what's trending, what's
new, what's, you know, those chosen few. The ones who have been
blessed to buy Apple to be to be shown or whatever. And then, if I go down there
on the bottom I see - you've got games, similar to two before.
You got the top games, you got apps as a different section, you
got updates and you can see I got 53 updates. I'm really terrible with doing
updates. Then way over here on the bottom, you have search.
I think the thing that bothers me the most about - By the way, I love the
update. So just let me put that out there, but I hate the fact that
the search is way down here in the bottom right hand corner. Like if I was
gonna put settings someplace, that's where I would put it. It is - it's
very different to where it was in the last version of the iOS. I still have
an iOS 10 on another iPad over here, so we'll go over that here in a minute. But
you know, this is where I live. I live in search. So, when it's kind of
relegated to an afterthought, that bothers me a little bit. It could
just be me being - I mean, only time will tell.
Over the next few months, we'll find out if if our app downloads go up or down or
if they just completely disappear. But for me, it's just - it's confusing.
Well, I think it's confusing. Someone who's used to using the other
one... The fact that - you know, a few years ago, everybody knows there's an app for
that. You know, they - they boast about
the fact that the - millions of apps or hundreds of thousands of apps
that they had, and now it's kind of like just oh well, it might be in the
back. You check the search, if you can't find what you're looking for
up here, go check in the back. Check our catalog or whatever. So anyway, that's
just kind of the way I think about it. Whereas, Google Play is
very much search driven. This seems to be very much feature driven. They're trying
to give you what they think you want, so you don't have to go through the search
and troll through all the archives. But as developers, that's where we live.
Let's just compare this here with the iOS 10, with the iOS 10 App Store.
Okay, so now, I have my trusty iPad air with iOS 10 which
I specifically have not upgraded this one yet, so we could go over this.
And also, it's good for testing. A lot of our users are not upgrading to the latest
version because they have an older iPad and we have to sort of support those
guys. So, have a look at this of what the old app store. By the way, I do
like the old icon. Although, I don't know why, I mean, the old icon for the apps
always look like a camping website to me. Every time I see this, it looks like a
tent. I think it's because of those KOA sites, if you ever drive across the US.
The logo looks similar to this, it just reminds me of it. So, let's go into
this one and to be honest with you, the the old App Store wasn't that much
different. But it wasn't - you didn't have that big today thing. So, along the
bottom, you still have the featured section first. You have the
categories of top charts to purchase, the updates, everything. But the search was
always more prominently displayed. It was almost like up in the upper
right-hand corner up here. It just made more sense to me to put the search
someplace where it's just - it's not like on the same level as everything else.
I mean if you're browsing you would go look at the featured apps. If you wanted
to - if you were looking for something specific, that search is right
there.. And it's just one of those little things it bothers me a little bit it.
It might just be because I'm getting old and I don't like change. I'm
willing to accept that. It might just, you know, but for me. I'm not - I mean
I like the new iOS 11 update. I like the new App Store. It's just that, the fact
that the search, where a lot of us live. Like a lot of us app
developers live in that search area. That's where all of our users come from
at least. That's where all of my users come from and on the iOS side. The fact
that it's been moved up, kind of bothers me a little bit. But anyway, let me know what
you, guys, think. I mean, are you -and first of all, we'll find out over the next few
months whether or not if actually - it may could just be me being irrational with
fears about, you know, who knows what. But let me know what you, guys, think. Do you
think it's gonna be a good thing for the App Store? Do you think it's
gonna hinder your apps or do you think it's gonna do better? And because of this
change, are you gonna try harder for the featured spot? Because for me, I'm never
really worried about being featured. I just thought if it happens,
it happens. But it might just be something that we have to start looking
at apps that have been featured and start doing that too. Anyway, that's it
for today. I'll talk to you, guys, tomorrow!