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Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by euph0ria »

derekp7 wrote: post #130
swiley wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphone app development is a poor investment. Just build a good website.

That brings up a question I've had -- so many web sites seem to work better as an app. Is that because app development is easier, or is there some things that you can do with an app that you can't do through web standards? Specifically what types of items can't be [easily] done as a web app but are easy as a smartphone app?

Push notifications. One of the primary reasons why companies haven't switched to PWA for simple apps.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by Guidii »

p49k wrote: post #84
wheresmycraisin wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, users, for the most part, don't want to install apps.

Maybe HN users, but an increasingly overwhelming percentage of the general population prefers to download an app to do something instead of using a mobile website.

Do you have a source for that?

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by ficklepickle »

derekp7 wrote: post #130
swiley wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphone app development is a poor investment. Just build a good website.

That brings up a question I've had -- so many web sites seem to work better as an app. Is that because app development is easier, or is there some things that you can do with an app that you can't do through web standards? Specifically what types of items can't be [easily] done as a web app but are easy as a smartphone app?

Mostly its just about user data and money. It's AOL all over again. Only this time, they just might win.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by heavyset_go »

swiley wrote: post #111
euph0ria wrote: post #53

The company I work for has forbidden the use of Google and their services such as GCP etc. due to how they treat their Play Store developers and other customer, in particular that there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the situation. We do not want the same to occur to our servers or if there is an overflow from Play Store ban to GCP etc. The business risk…

Smartphone app development is a poor investment. Just build a good website.

Unfortunately, Apple refuses to implement basic features into Safari that Chrome and Firefox have supported for a while, and they refuse to allow developers to use browser engines other than the embedded Safari on iOS. This forces developers to release iOS apps if they want to target iOS users.

What we need is some anti-trust litigation with teeth.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by derekp7 »

euph0ria wrote: post #141
derekp7 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That brings up a question I've had -- so many web sites seem to work better as an app. Is that because app development is easier, or is there some things that you can do with an app that you can't do through web standards? Specifically what types of items can't be [easily] done as a web app but are easy as a smartphone app?

Push notifications. One of the primary reasons why companies haven't switched to PWA for simple apps.

Then what is that popup I get all the time visiting sites that says "Allow site xyz to send notifications"? Is that different than push notifications?

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

#146

Post by heavyset_go »

derekp7 wrote: post #130
swiley wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphone app development is a poor investment. Just build a good website.

That brings up a question I've had -- so many web sites seem to work better as an app. Is that because app development is easier, or is there some things that you can do with an app that you can't do through web standards? Specifically what types of items can't be [easily] done as a web app but are easy as a smartphone app?

Apple refuses to implement standards that make web applications usable on mobile devices, even though Chrome and Firefox have supported them for ages.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by mokus »

vermilingua wrote: post #132
signal11 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government that’s beholden to certain vested interests in the garb of “free markets”. This is a state that has fetishized “light touch regulation” so much that it, for most of the state, has its own grid to avoid dealing with Federal authorities. And repeatedly failed to take action to get power companies to winterize…

So hang on, why is it that South Africa is “corrupt”, but Texas is “beholden to certain vested interests”?

Did any one person say both of those things?

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by edoceo »

vermilingua wrote: post #132
signal11 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government that’s beholden to certain vested interests in the garb of “free markets”. This is a state that has fetishized “light touch regulation” so much that it, for most of the state, has its own grid to avoid dealing with Federal authorities. And repeatedly failed to take action to get power companies to winterize…

So hang on, why is it that South Africa is “corrupt”, but Texas is “beholden to certain vested interests”?

That's just more words for corrupt

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by youdontknwtexas »

signal11 wrote: post #119
pistoriusp wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is far worse, but South Africa has an inept and corrupt government, I wonder what the excuse is for Texas?

I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government that’s beholden to certain vested interests in the garb of “free markets”. This is a state that has fetishized “light touch regulation” so much that it, for most of the state, has its own grid to avoid dealing with Federal authorities. And repeatedly failed to take action to get power companies to winterize…

The worst part of living through a few cold, powerless days in Travis county is now having to listen to insufferable fuckheads like you wax on about the "fetishes" in our government.

Texas isn't actually all that conservative compared to a lot of states, it's just a stereotype. The three big cities, which make up a huge portion of the population, are racially diverse and politically Democrat.

For instance Texas has mandatory annual vehicle inspection and front plates, regulations that don't exist in some states in the Midwest.

I do hope we address the winterization gaps in our infrastructure because the state regulations, which are stronger than the Federal ones, weren't enforced, but we can do it without the comments from the peanut gallery.

The other grids have suffered blackouts in the last thirty years, too. I remember one in the nineties in part of the Eastern grid that lasted two weeks that family lived through, and blackouts in the Northeast and California in recent memory.

Get off your high horse.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by euph0ria »

derekp7 wrote: post #145
euph0ria wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Push notifications. One of the primary reasons why companies haven't switched to PWA for simple apps.

Then what is that popup I get all the time visiting sites that says "Allow site xyz to send notifications"? Is that different than push notifications?

Doesn't work on Safari / iOS.
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