Sorting through mountains of apps

Browsing apps is pretty frustrating now.

With 500,000 apps in the app store, old fashioned, simple, one-size-fits-all browsing techniques are not really good enough. The categorization and search-string filter system is way too primitive. Apple is going to have to do something to keep up with that scale.

Microsoft is up to 30,000 apps for Windows 7 Phone, I think I recently read. Even at that lower number, you are beginning to push limits of Apple’s rudimentary browser. It’s a very nice UI, don’t get me wrong. It’s approach is just not good enough too handle the mountain of apps they have now.

When I shop for one, I don’t want to find an app that is good enough. I want to find the one that is best for me. As things stand now, I might not see it. My grocery store has more aisles in it than Apple has categories and my grocery store does not have 500,000 kinds of food.

Sad that when we finally get a huge online store for software application shopping, the app we would most like to upgrade is the store itself.