Apple’s gaming App Store is broken — promoting games like ‘+119+’ and ‘+1111’

Apple’s broken iOS App Store is taking us back to the good-ol’ Yellow Pages days, when naming your company ‘AAA 123 Electricians’ meant you ruled the listings.

Go to the games section of the App Store, and it all looks fine … until you start checking out subcategories, such as racing, sports, or simulation games. Then it starts falling apart. Instead of offering a curated selection of relevant games, the App Store presents a list that favors numbers, special characters, and alphabetical order. For example, the “New” section in the simulation category highlight games like *777* +, 123456789, and $$$$$$. And what’s hot in word games right now? That’d be AAA Mobile Game Quiz, 1102, and -5-. These are all real game names, believe it or not, and they’re getting front-page attention.