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It just amazes me that developers try to cram editorializing into the title of the app, when you're already given a search word field and a description field in which to tell the world about your app. IRL nobody searches for "Cheerios - Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal for the Whole Family".
which one is more incompetent as a service company - Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Apple? I think my ranking would be Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, but that is not so much decided via any sort of logical evaluation but only due to my feeling on the matter.
For all the problems Amazon has and causes I will say I've always found their support to be pretty excellent. From what I understand Amazon's foundibg philosophy is focused on just serving the customer at the cost of any other externality and that's where most of the conterversy surrounding them comes from is placing whatever is needed to please the customer above every other concern. But that means when working with…
I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple and Google should have a monopoly on deciding what apps people can run on their phones. In case of Google's Android, one can still install third party App Stores, even they take away auto-updates and such. Apple is a much worse offender. In either case, why does anyone think that they should have a monopoly there and why is nothing being done to f…
> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple I'm old. I like that I can generally trust installing apps on my phone because Apple vets them. It is one less thing for me to think about. Likewise, I have young children. I also like that I can generally install an age appropriate app for them, because Apple's vetting process. Again one less thing for me to think about. On the flip side, I ban…
It just amazes me that developers try to cram editorializing into the title of the app, when you're already given a search word field and a description field in which to tell the world about your app. IRL nobody searches for "Cheerios - Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal for the Whole Family".
What OP unfortunately missed is a post like this: "Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29497680
There are many utility apps with thousand of similar apps, most are garbage filled with ads but then there are a few made without app upselling or ads but until you find those you send a lot of time.
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> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple I'm old. I like that I can generally trust installing apps on my phone because Apple vets them. It is one less thing for me to think about. Likewise, I have young children. I also like that I can generally install an age appropriate app for them, because Apple's vetting process. Again one less thing for me to think about. On the flip side, I ban…
But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users install their own apps manually (even with barriers, making it as hard as they like).
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> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple I'm old. I like that I can generally trust installing apps on my phone because Apple vets them. It is one less thing for me to think about. Likewise, I have young children. I also like that I can generally install an age appropriate app for them, because Apple's vetting process. Again one less thing for me to think about. On the flip side, I ban…
But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users install their own apps manually (even with barriers, making it as hard as they like).
ios Safari puts in place some limitation (sandboxing, constraint device apis) to guard against malicious actors, but it is not curated the same way ios App Store is.
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Dont worry, google is working hard to make sure that even employees are unable to do anything of that sort. Gather the world's information and make it uniformally unsupported.
This is good . It will tie the fates of small time customers/users to the elites, so the situation gets fixed or the business collapses.
I think you were lucky they told you anything . On Quora they just say "your answer was deleted for violating Quora policies. Click here to read our policies." This sort of "tell them nothing" approach seems pervasive in the online world. Blame the lawyers. Their lawyers must caution them "Don't give any details. That just opens us up to more questions & legal actions." The fact that it's completely self-serving and…
I don't think that justifies the harm it does to regular people, but it is a lot less sinister than just CYA.
I actually blame tech media who capitalize on every "malware in the Play Store!!!" story a lot more, and the Apple apologists who use any news of malware on Android (even if it only applies to people downloading pirated apps and sideloading them with root) to trumpet how insecure Android is. Personally I think that bad press is the primary driver behind the modern policies.