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State of Play provides snapshots of attempted
searches within the Play app store (Spring 2013). Consider it a
mini-documentary exploring the commercial ideology
governing this and other app search engines. There's
no app category for Art, so anything Art-related
must be found using erratic search results.
Of course, calling them "erratic" discounts the lucrative
strategic logic that motivates corporations to control
search systems.
Apologists will undoubtedly point out that e-books are being sold by the same companies that limit the app categories. But few people actually read e-books on phones, and there is reason to believe that overall mobile device usage is trending toward interactive apps and away from the book format. Even if there is a path for reading about Art, where are artists who would make art for mobile media supposed to present it to the public? As games?
Apologists will undoubtedly point out that e-books are being sold by the same companies that limit the app categories. But few people actually read e-books on phones, and there is reason to believe that overall mobile device usage is trending toward interactive apps and away from the book format. Even if there is a path for reading about Art, where are artists who would make art for mobile media supposed to present it to the public? As games?