Of course they have, otherwise they would have long ago provided ways for paid apps to offer demos. There are lots of quality apps that would be rescued from the freemium category if Apple provided this as a distribution feature.
Like LITE version and Pro version of an app? Yeah, Why don't aht exist? Oh wait, it does. The devs just choose to make a free app and then have the pro version as in app purchase.
But I guess the devs doing it that way is also Apples fault. Somehow everything is Apples fault according to you people.
It's not Hollywoods fault we got Transformers 3, it's the 50 million people who bought tickets to Transformers 2.
Just because something has IAP doesn't make it bad. One has to look at how the app uses IAP instead.
Discoverability is what the person is talking about, and it would indeed improve discoverability.
Keep in mind that via Spotify's subscription model it's only something like 20% of the what users listen to thats chart music. The rest is outside the normal popular genres.
So it's a chicken and an egg discussion.
Thats how the movie industry still works that how the music industry used to work.
I bet you Netflix show the same tendency of having more people see non-chart movies than if they had to pay for it.
Which is why I really wished down votes came with a requirement to quality why you are being down voted.
Here I though I was making an argument that when people where given the freedom to choose without it having financial implications they would in fact choose differently than when they have to pay for it and a "mistake" means more.