The inner machinations of Apple‘s App Store are apparently getting a reboot following years of clutter; taking a leaf out of Google’s book on how it might fix things.
For those who’ve experienced it, finding stuff on the App Store is somewhat hit and miss, with the amount of clone apps burying the stuff you’re actually looking for.
To fix this, Apple apparently wants to revamp the store and do it a little like how Google does; with paid search results that can be picked up by brands like Blizzard, Adobe and so on so their apps will appear on top when you search. Not saying the Google Play Store is any less messy; it probably has more junkware than the App Store.
Regardless, the kind of changes that will be made by the team (lead by company vice president, Todd Teresi) who will be handling the project are still pretty vague and Apple hasn’t dropped any big statement yet so take this rumour with a grain of salt.
However, it also looks like Apple will be rebranding their OSX operating system to simply MacOS in the future, as they’re moving to remove the “i” from many of their product lines in favour of a more unified naming scheme.
Whether or not any of these changes will come into effect, we’ll have to wait for Apple’s WWDC developer conference in June to find out.