{"id":5630,"date":"2011-10-10T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2011-10-10T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:35:17","slug":"i-cant-stand-spam-in-all-the-mobile-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/i-cant-stand-spam-in-all-the-mobile-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t stand spam in all the mobile app stores&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I bet the PR team love it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you seen the number of applications that are little more than a list of website articles? Or launch a bookmark? Or are yet another eBook reader of the Project Gutenberg text of A Princess of Mars? Why are they all still flooding every mobile app store on the planet? Because I think, secretly, the stores love the spam. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they&#8217;re never going to say that out loud, they&#8217;re never going to even give a nudge and a wink to it, but part of the management teams must look at the &#8220;number of items in the store&#8221; counter going up each day and be happy at the upwards velocity on show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/features\/item\/13376_Spam_Spam_Spam_Eggs_Ham_Apps_a.php\">rant-y editorial<\/a> from me on the All About sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I bet the PR team love it: Have you seen the number of applications that are little more than a list of website articles? Or launch a bookmark? Or are yet another eBook reader of the Project Gutenberg text of A Princess of Mars? Why are they all still flooding every mobile app store on the planet? Because I think, secretly, the stores love the spam. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they&#8217;re never going to say that out loud, they&#8217;re never going to even give a nudge and a wink to it, but part of the management teams must look<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,606,13,630,2245],"tags":[648,3300,605],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-links-to-my-articles","category-symbian-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-windows-phone","tag-app-store","tag-rss-apps","tag-spam","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1sO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}