Problem with app choice

November 19, 2009 · No comments

Steve Litchfield presented a great metaphor of the problem with choice people are having with assorted app stores:

You head down to the jam aisle to ‘get some marmalade’ and are presented with 33 different alternatives, including about 20 subtly differently flavoured and quality-graded variants under the supermarket’s own ‘brand’. Which one do you go for? [the chances are that you'll actually walk away]

Here’s how Steve says it should be:

one room. You ask for marmalade – they stock two brands. You make your pick – that was easy.

Indeed. Thrash or hide the real bad and useless apps, and instead make good content easily accessible.

Source: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/10754_Move_over_heavy_handed_Apple-w.php

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