Episode Details

This week, Federico and John consider the state of Apple’s built-in apps and whether it’s getting harder for third-party developers to compete with them.

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Links and Show Notes

• Erasing Complexity: The Comfort of Apple’s Ecosystem
• Apps that Compete with Apple’s apps
  • Overcast
  • Pocket Casts
  • Castro
  • PCalc
  • GoodTask
  • OmniFocus
  • Things
  • Todoist
  • Spark
• Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors

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