Jeff Atwood ha raccolto una serie di problemi e critiche alla situazione attuale del mercato delle applicazioni mobili:

Imagine you bought your coffee, only to open the lid and find it was only half full, or that it wasn’t coffee at all but lemonade. If only 1 in 5 cups of coffee you bought actually contained coffee, a $3.99 price for that coffee starts to seem unreasonably high.When you buy an app, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.