Yo Is Trying To Get Parody App YOLO and Others Pulled From The App Store

It's a double-edged sword, but Apple does provide certain end-user guarantees about the quality of software on the App Store and overall, it's a net win compared to the vast amounts of garbage that can be found in say, the Windows or Android ecosystems.

It's a win for both developers and consumers, because less competition at a higher standard means more market share goes to developers that genuinely innovate and deliver value and less goes to those that just game the rankings system by spamming with cloned crapware and fake reviews.

The fact that the platform is a complete walled garden is the real problem, not whatever Apple chooses for their quality/decency standards. I am very happy that Apple chooses to enforce those standards within their own ecosystem. I'd just prefer if they allowed access to alternatives as well, which hopefully will happen in the future as they become a larger monopoly and pressure on them to open up becomes more of a mainstream concern.

I love Apple's curation. I'm always bitterly disappointed whenever I use Android's app store (which is all the time because my only phone at the moment is a Nexus 5). The signal to noise ratio is just so bad, and the overall quality level is just so low.

I honestly looked that up. Sigh, Poe's law.

I was talking about the Hodor "Yo" clone. Instead of saying Yo, it says Hodor. I've got it on my iPhone

Novelty + positive feedback loop + marketing. Yo is not million dollar idea, it's combination of luck and successful marketing that brought money

I agree; I never said it did.

It is, but it's slower. You typically have to say something, and even typing "yo" takes more effort than using an app specialized for it - and when all of human language is available, people often aren't comfortable just saying "yo". Instead they may feel compelled to type out "Are you available now?"

Using an app makes it okay to just send one bit of information. It can be done in two presses: one to open the app, one to ping the person.

Please note I am not arguing that Yo is worth the money invested in them. I do, however, think that many of the comments went too far in the other direction to say the idea has no utility.

Which is fixed with a name change.

Cool! Email justin@coffitivity.com

That'd be pretty wicked actually! We'd love some underground sounds if you ever happen across some quality gear.

And I find "Yo" useful! I love Coffitivity, it is a little silly though. It's also really important and powerful in millions of peoples lives - Yo isn't quite at that point yet but it totally could be.

But they're both a little silly and it's not right (in my definition of right) for either to be trying to get clones taken down IMO.

Thanks @Deinos! Although, I'd agree with Tommy that the site itself IS silly - it's like dead stupid simple if we're being honest. Hell, as the co-founder I called Coffitivity ridiculous before we ever started building. That said, the utility becomes apparent pretty quickly and outweighs how trivial it seemed at first. We're really stoked you're enjoying it.

It's not "just because I disagree". It's overwhelming reaction to those valuations among tech community. For example here on HN you see a lot of people joking about those valuations and many (most?) consider them completely unreasonable. Either they are wrong (quite possible) or there are naive investors in every case (quite possible as well) or there is some other explanation (out of which fraud is natural one to consider as it would make investment based on ridiculous valuation rational).

You may be on opinion that the valuations are clearly not ridiculous and that's fine but imo you can't rationally claim that valuation is ridiculous and fraud is not serious possibility.