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How did you solve the lack of push notifications on iOS?
For iOS, can't you just wrap your web application in a thin native app layer that provides the push functionality?
The use cases they migrated to React Native are rather simple - a list of orders, which customers will choose to use in order to get the status of their order - the customer's need is very high and optimization here does not bring much business value (conversions). The POS use case is stronger due to the expected responsiveness that is required, though it can degrade slowly over time and will not be noticeable (boiling frog) like in phones.
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are you the one exception that makes us all suffer from notification induced FOMO ? :)
No one makes you suffer through anything. You can’t get push notifications without specifically opting into them, and you can disable them forever for any app with about 3 taps.
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Honest question: is there some reason you can't use standard web tech for push notifications? ie polling, WebSockets, etc?
I was under the impression that under memory pressure all of the tabs in every mobile browser (Firefox/Safari/Edge) I have ever used is unloaded by iOS.
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"people are usually willing to spend more" : not in my case ( and probably many other) when i say it is a niche market i mean it not only in terms of number of customers, but also in term of potential generated revenues. there are businesses , especially in artistic fields, where people simply aren't willing to spend a lot of money on accessories, even if they are useful to their job. now i'm not saying i will never…
I think perhaps your business model isn't as solid as you might think. Producing an app is not a free pass to live on the revenue, and the market capture is an important part. I'm not an app developer, I'm in the music industry (day job in IT infra), but it seems to me there are some people projecting their bad business sense onto Apple. As per my other comment in this thread, and the reply someone made for me, the c…
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As a developer of a pro app in a niche market trying to make a living on the app store, i can tell you those 30% are what prevents me from working full time on my app.
There are thousands of desktop app developers that never got out of the hobby stage because they couldn’t get past the costs of processing payments, managing refunds, managing download servers, implementing licensing frameworks, implementing a smooth upgrade process, search engine optimization, establishing enough trust with users that they are confident they aren’t installing malware infected software, marketing, pu…
There's so much money out there searching for an investment. It's a shame really.
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Users hate web apps, especially on mobile, and it has nothing to do with functionality. Web apps on the App Store invariably provoke angry screeds about how the look and feel is not right. Native apps are even more essential on mobile. On the desktop, web apps just look weird and waste battery life. On mobile, they feel wrong. That difference in feel provokes visceral hatred.
The biggest problem with mobile apps is that you don't always have a reliable connection to the internet, even when your carrier is claiming you have 4g lte with all the bars. Web apps should really have the option to cache the page entirely for offline use.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…
No mobile website has match the performance of native though
Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…