[DarkSavant]

Apple and Google are lousy at promoting apps. The non-obvious chink in the armor is that while Apple and Google dominate the supply of apps — and take a cut of each paid download — they are lousy at promoting and marketing apps.

They probably don't consider it their job to promote apps they don't control.

I can see a good revenue model for Facebook in charging to advertise in the app store. IS it substantial enough to compete with Google and Apple, that have their app stores strongly embedded in their devices? I doubt it.

[cuban leaf]

cell phone companies and the internets must hate me. I’ve had a smart phone for 4 years now and have purchased one app: I paid five bucks for winamp so I could listen to odd formats.

I do a lot of mail order via the internet because I live in the sticks but I don’t do ads. At all. I google search for an item in chrome and when I find what I want, I cut and paste the company’s address in Firefox.