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		chc on Jan 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sorry, your “cool” webapp is probably not going to... Ringtones were pretty much always a worthless ripoff. There might be particular market segments in the app store that will die off (I don't know, maybe book apps will be superseded by ebooks), but the App Store as a whole offers a lot of value and convenience, and the "fad" for those things has been going strong for hundreds of years now.

axod on Jan 11, 2011 [–]

I'd say the vast majority of apps area ripoff. The majority are available on various websites for free.

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