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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 Dylan16807 »

NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #160
Dylan16807 wrote: post #141

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If the risk is that I'm going to strongly dislike a quarter of the movies we watch, I'd rather spend a couple minutes negotiating or swiping.

Question is would you spend 2 hours (equal time to watch a movie) swiping for match, or take a chance on a movie she may like? On the other hand is there a part of tolerance where you embrace that your partner is not same as you, and that from time to time it would be nice to learn few things about her/him? In article number of 500,000 movies has been mentioned, and if you use 3 sec of swiping that is really lot of s…

I think you're making some very unwarranted assumptions about how long this app takes to use.

> On the other hand is there a part of tolerance where you embrace that your partner is not same as you, and that from time to time it would be nice to learn few things about her/him?

Yeah, sometimes.

But if you actually want to accomplish that with any regularity, and not waste a ton of time on movies that one person has to tolerate and the other person only picked on a whim, you need to discuss the movie choices. Simply alternating is still a bad plan.

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

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Post by lovelyviking »

askafriend wrote: post #269
lovelyviking wrote: post #140

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>... but Apple captures some of the costs at publish time (as it should be). This forces you to pay 100$ a year when you just wish to use your own hand made app on your own phone if you wish it to work longer then 1 week offline. While using app of someone else doesn't require that. 100$ per year x 4 years = 400$ to use your own app. What makes you think that this is how it should be? If the whole idea that one shoul…

This is wrong. You can build apps on your own phone for free. Nothing you said is true.

Really? What is wrong? Last time I've checked:

    Free developer accounts must re-sign every 7 days
    Paid developer accounts must re-sign every 1 year
How can you build native apps on your own iphone FOR your own iphone?

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

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Post by BigJ1211 »

CasperDern wrote: post #204
astrange wrote: post #197

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> Apple/Google take 30 % of that fart, so you guess what they get at end. Typically 15% now.

> Typically 15% now. Only because of the (still ongoing) anti-trust lawsuit against them.

That 30% is also the industry standard. (Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo, Epic etc). Which has only recently started to shift.

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

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Post by Scharkenberg »

vbezhenar wrote: post #236
noisem4ker wrote: post #234

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iOS has a crippled browser which purposefully does not support PWAs, with notifications and such.

iOS does support PWA. Notifications are not supported, but PWA is more than notifications.

Internet Explorer 9 does support HTML5. are not supported, but HTML5 is more than .

Let's not mince words now. Apple purposefully cripples Safari to make native apps more competitive because they get a cut of every sale and it boosts their claims about the AppStore too.

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Post by cookie_monsta »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #164
billfruit wrote: post #125

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Wont making it as a PWA circumvent the app store restrictions?

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

Whereas all my native apps are positively dreamy without internet connection...

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Post by herbst »

dvt wrote: post #11

> Eat my butt, Apple. Eat my butt, Google. Just let me publish my frickin app, you already emptied my pockets. I feel this. A few years ago, I made a joke app[1] which got a bit famous on campus back when I was in school, and the process of getting it on the Play store was literally harder than writing the darn thing. Nowadays, it even got removed from the Play store for some reason. I couldn't imagine running an app…

Same here. Published 2 apps over the time. Both got removed within less than 12 months despite running well on most devices and requiring less permissions than any concurrent app.

I simply decided its not worth my time.

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Post by learc83 »

spockz wrote: post #285
learc83 wrote: post #237

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Back only sleeping has been the recommendation of medical authorities in most of the world for close to 30 years. It’s not a recommendation that changes every few years.

I sure believe it has been the official one. It is just that whatever the maternity care people tell you do changes. And they’ll tell you it’s official.

What country are you in? That’s definitely not common in the US.

Running across a doctor telling you to do anything other than back only sleeping is like running across a doctor telling you that vaccines cause autism. I’m sure it happens, but it’s very rare.

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Post by itsdrewmiller »

sangnoir wrote: post #288
sokoloff wrote: post #249

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Since they make more from iOS users overall, they definitely make more than from a small subset of Android users. My point is app developers rightly care about their total income, not about the per-capita income from a tiny slice of the userbase.

> Since they make more from iOS users overall* * In the United States of America Many American app makers hit a ceiling when they try to expand internationally and they discover that for the rest of the world, Android is both dominant , and more profitable.

Globally the apple App Store is about 2x revenue. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/05/app-store-earns-7...

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Post by fatnoah »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #97
Hammershaft wrote: post #69

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> the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort shovelware Wait how does this differ from the appstore?

If you think that AppStore is a wasteland, don’t even look at Play Store unless you want a PTSD.

The Windows App Store has entered the game...
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