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Want me to download your app? Please do this.
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Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.
#2I love the Android / Amazon model - hit the store on a desktop browser, select a device to send the content to, hit buy, and relax knowing that the app or content will be downloaded to said device within seconds. I'm genuinely surprised Apple haven't done this.
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#3I love the Android / Amazon model - hit the store on a desktop browser, select a device to send the content to, hit buy, and relax knowing that the app or content will be downloaded to said device within seconds. I'm genuinely surprised Apple haven't done this.
Apple has done this. "iTunes in the Cloud" causes purchases made on any device (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) to be downloaded automatically on all devices which automatic downloads have been enabled on. Purchases that are automatically downloaded include music, apps, and books. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.
#4I love the Android / Amazon model - hit the store on a desktop browser, select a device to send the content to, hit buy, and relax knowing that the app or content will be downloaded to said device within seconds. I'm genuinely surprised Apple haven't done this.
iOS5/iCloud works in this use case, actually. You download an app anywhere, including desktop iTunes, and your devices automatically download it too. It is a bit of a bandwidth waste and it asks for your password, but it's smooth enough.
You can download every iPhone app on the iPad too, unless it requires GPS/camera/compass (not sure). The only missing use case is downloading iPad apps when on the iPhone. They cannot even be found in the mobile App Store's search. :(
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#5I love the Android / Amazon model - hit the store on a desktop browser, select a device to send the content to, hit buy, and relax knowing that the app or content will be downloaded to said device within seconds. I'm genuinely surprised Apple haven't done this.
Apple has done this. "iTunes in the Cloud" causes purchases made on any device (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) to be downloaded automatically on all devices which automatic downloads have been enabled on. Purchases that are automatically downloaded include music, apps, and books. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
iCloud definitely seems like the Right Way, going even further than the Android model. Doesn't this make the method the article talks about redundant - or is the author not using iCloud?
[edit] Oh wait, does that mean iCloud works from any device but not from a browser? That seems like an odd omission.
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#6I love the Android / Amazon model - hit the store on a desktop browser, select a device to send the content to, hit buy, and relax knowing that the app or content will be downloaded to said device within seconds. I'm genuinely surprised Apple haven't done this.
Apple has done this. "iTunes in the Cloud" causes purchases made on any device (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) to be downloaded automatically on all devices which automatic downloads have been enabled on. Purchases that are automatically downloaded include music, apps, and books. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
> any device
Any Apple manufactured device, which constitutes about 30% of all devices I own and use. It's probably why I rarely download new apps on my iPad, if I can't trigger a download from any web browser I'm not going to even bother looking unless I need/want something specific.
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#7Just keep this in mind the next time you see some article about how it's impossible to make money making apps. What this post is asking developers to do for their apps is the utter minimum of basic marketing. It's not even Marketing 101; it's stuff you could figure out way before that. And many app developers don't even do it.
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#8This seems like much ado about nothing. Download in iTunes and it automatically shows up in iOS.
Don't use iTunes? Use your browser’s “mail page” command.
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#9I usually use https://gethopper.com/you for things like this since Apple's "solution" isn't the most ideal. I prefer opening it on my iPhone via Hopper and downloading the app there instead of opening iTunes which I rarely have open.
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#10This seems like much ado about nothing. Download in iTunes and it automatically shows up in iOS. Don't use iTunes? Use your browser’s “mail page” command.
Most people wouldn't know how to email a page from their browser if their life depended on it.