The iOS App Store design is pretty awesome actually. It got a total design revamp last year in iOS 11 [1], and it's coming to macOS Mojave in a couple of months, so to claim the design is stagnant is incorrect.
It's fluid, and has great use of typography, spacing and colors. I don't see how it is criticize the design of it, the design is the best part. The missing features (like demo versions not being possible) etc and bad policies are the issues, not the design.
An annoying thing with the new design is that the Today content only is saved for a week, past articles and selections gets lost (archiving the editorial content would actually be a smart website idea, if you disregard the copyright issues), ideally it should be indefinitely scrollable.
Edit: It's frustrating that people don't bother explaining what is wrong with the design of the App Store instead of just downvoting me.
I didn't (and won't) vote on your comment, however I think the down votes are due to the fact that you praised the App store while saying something negative about the Play store. Even HN is not without it's fanboys.
Have you actually found any new apps to download through Apple's new News style storefront? Just a cursory ping around my office has resulted in only 1 person installing an app through it.
It's quite frankly an obnoxious, Apple has to control everything, replacement for all of the other various startups who were creating marketing channels for developers to reach new users.
I'm sorry, but I could not disagree more. I've only used the store once, and it was just awful.
The search was crap, the recommended apps were crap, the way the data was presented is horrible, etc.
I didn't downvote you, but it seems obvious to me that their tools and design were not intended with UX in mind, but profits.
It's fluid, and has great use of typography, spacing and colors. I don't see how it is criticize the design of it, the design is the best part. The missing features (like demo versions not being possible) etc and bad policies are the issues, not the design.
An annoying thing with the new design is that the Today content only is saved for a week, past articles and selections gets lost (archiving the editorial content would actually be a smart website idea, if you disregard the copyright issues), ideally it should be indefinitely scrollable.
Edit: It's frustrating that people don't bother explaining what is wrong with the design of the App Store instead of just downvoting me.
[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/