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I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by askafriend »

ksec wrote: post #124
askafriend wrote: post #94

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You’re welcome to buy an Android phone. iOS is the minority OS in every single market it operates in. Try building a game for Nintendo Switch that doesn’t go through the Nintendo store and see how far that gets you.

>iOS is the minority OS in every single market it operates in. iOS is the majority in US and Japan, nearly half in many other countries. Not Minority in most Developed market.

You’re right in the US - it’s about 60% but fluctuates.

In Japan it’s below 50% but close enough (45ish) and there’s a historical reason for that. Japanese adoption of iPhone is especially unique.

Everywhere else it’s well below 50%. In the EU it’s about 30% or so.

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #217
askafriend wrote: post #19

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As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules. "And there are all these stupid requirements. I need at least X screenshots, and they have to be this exact resolution blah blah blah. On top of that, it took so long to get approved. My ADHD brain really suffered waiting for the gratification." I would hate to browse a store where the products didn't have at least X screenshots with at least X resolution,…

Can we not have random inappropriate and uninformed comments about ADHD, please? Whether intended or not, this comment plays into old, tired stereotyped thinking that really, all ADHD people need is to have more self-control. Thinking that ADHD is about self-control and not wanting to delay gratification shows a complete lack of understanding of what the disorder actually entails (in particular, ADHD qualifies as neu…

I was directly quoting the article...

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by merrvk »

shireboy wrote: post #270

Tip on App Store fud: set up fastlane to automate your deployment. I have mine down to a single command to publish to both app stores, or to both Google Play Internal track and TestFlight. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but saves me tons of time now. You can even automate screenshots, App Store metadata etc. https://fastlane.tools/

The amount of time fastlane tooling has saved me over the years is insane

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by dreamcompiler »

billfruit wrote: post #194
dreamcompiler wrote: post #164

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Yep. It just wouldn't work offline because offline PWAs are a PITA.

I do wonder though why fully static client side only PWAs need to be so complex to make.

I expect a lot of it is Apple purposely crippling Safari's offline capabilities so developers will have no alternative to making an app.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53439379/ios-12-does-not...

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by dreamcompiler »

kortilla wrote: post #179
dreamcompiler wrote: post #163

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Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles. And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple. Independent developers have not just a right but a God-given right to write code for general-purpose user-owned computers without interference from Apple, and the fact that they cannot do so means Apple is violating that right and they (Apple) should receive the pointy end of a stick until…

The distinction you’re trying to make between an iPhone and a game console isn’t very clear.

Developers have been conditioned to know they cannot develop games for consoles without the manufacturer's permission, but we expect to be able to develop applications for general-purpose computers freely. And the iPhone is clearly in the latter category regardless of what Apple calls it, because of the range of things it can do.

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Post by dreamcompiler »

f6v wrote: post #188
dreamcompiler wrote: post #163

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Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles. And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple. Independent developers have not just a right but a God-given right to write code for general-purpose user-owned computers without interference from Apple, and the fact that they cannot do so means Apple is violating that right and they (Apple) should receive the pointy end of a stick until…

> Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles. You just pulled that of a thin air. I mean, a latest Samsung fridge is a general-purpose computer as well, so... > And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple. You know what you're buying, so just stop buying it. Pinephone ships in April.

A Samsung fridge ought to be user-programmable too. And I do plan to buy an unencumbered phone when one of them becomes stable enough for daily use.

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by zepto »

zo1 wrote: post #262
askafriend wrote: post #19

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As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules. "And there are all these stupid requirements. I need at least X screenshots, and they have to be this exact resolution blah blah blah. On top of that, it took so long to get approved. My ADHD brain really suffered waiting for the gratification." I would hate to browse a store where the products didn't have at least X screenshots with at least X resolution,…

The app-stores are filled with millions of garbage apps despite the ridiculous restrictions.

At least you can see screenshots of what those ‘garbage apps’ are.

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by zepto »

ineptech wrote: post #168
dreamcompiler wrote: post #163

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Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles. And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple. Independent developers have not just a right but a God-given right to write code for general-purpose user-owned computers without interference from Apple, and the fact that they cannot do so means Apple is violating that right and they (Apple) should receive the pointy end of a stick until…

Iphones try very hard to look like general purpose computers; that's why everyone was so pissed when they pushed that U2 album, it pierced the veil.

Apple explicitly markets that the iPhone is locked down.

How is that ‘trying hard’ to look like a general purpose computer?

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by another-dave »

cdolan wrote: post #232
c-c-c-c-c wrote: post #207

Not gonna make an account with a password that requires this and that

I’d recommend a password manager

If you're using a password manager, site-specific password requirements are all the more annoying — rather than just letting the PM generate something very secure you have to go in & tweak settings to generate something _less_ random because the website wants "only X characters" or whatever
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