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American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Re: American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Post by saurik »

dboreham wrote: post #5

Rule #1: don't start a business that depends on data owned by some other business. Rule #1-1: especially if your product adversely affects the other business. Rule #1-2: especially if the other business is much larger than yours.

While true, is that relevant? This app is free and doesn't even have in-app purchases, so it sounds like it was just built by a person (one sufficiently human to its users that the reviews are directly written to or about "Jeff") who had some reason to care for this community and isn't a "business".

Re: American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Post by josefresco »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #3

I don't understand. What does this app do?

Same reaction, I'm totally lost.

"it displays information required by crew members to manage their rosters and work lives"

What does this mean? I read the entire article and still have no clue what a "roster" is, why a flight attendant would need to "manage" such a thing, and what data is being pulled to make this easier/better

"‘reserve’ flight attendants "

Also have no idea what a "reserve" flight attendant is...

Edit: Apparently there are some of you you think I actually need these words defined. I do not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Post by [deleted] »

michaelt wrote: post #9
sidewndr46 wrote: post #3

I don't understand. What does this app do?

According to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sequence-decoder/id1439988599 For the public: Past and future departure information for all airports, Past and future arrival information for all airports, Individual flight info lookup For flight attendants: Flight specific info inflight, ETB alerts, Open time alerts, Flight alerts, Open time display, Sequence details, Calendar, Reserve call out list, Standby list, Crew cha…

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Re: American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Post by renewiltord »

dboreham wrote: post #5

Rule #1: don't start a business that depends on data owned by some other business. Rule #1-1: especially if your product adversely affects the other business. Rule #1-2: especially if the other business is much larger than yours.

Well, it's not a business, and it doesn't adversely affect the other business so this is fine. The complaint isn't really by the app developer. It's mostly that life is being made hard for the attendants through blocking the developer.

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Post by ledauphin »

dboreham wrote: post #5

Rule #1: don't start a business that depends on data owned by some other business. Rule #1-1: especially if your product adversely affects the other business. Rule #1-2: especially if the other business is much larger than yours.

this may be true, but it's very disappointing. As BigCos keep getting bigger and owning more and more data, it is essentially a moratorium on individuals implementing good ideas that provide value to other individuals.

As citizens we should oppose this concept of data ownership; you shouldn't be able to 'own' facts that the public and your employees already reasonably have access to.

Re: American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants

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Post by nnm »

It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.

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