For folks who are not familiar, this is "The Library of Babel" by Borges. There is no creating, just selecting among characters sequences we already knew were possible.
replyIn that scenario the 'joy of creation' would just shift to the 'joy of discovery'. Both of which are innate to humans.
replyTrust me, the two are not the same, and are orders of magnitude different in terms of human satisfaction.
replyWhen I walk down a street, I get 10 people stopping me to ask "Where did you get that?". When I tell them I made it, their heads explode. I know which side of that interaction is more satisfying.
We also go all-out for Halloween, and at the big Halloween festival there is literally a line down the street of people waiting to take photos with us. We created something amazing.
People aren't going to line up for slop.
If there was an infinite App Store, we wouldn't have scarcity and I'd be doing literally anything else other than selling my time for money. I'd also be killed because there's no point to my owners/the world keeping me around anymore in that scenario, except, maybe for my winning personality/companionship.
replyTo be fair, the shoppers of the InfiniteAppStore can still bikeshed endlessly about the merchandise.
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