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Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.

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Post by ja27 » Mon, Feb 13, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

allspiritseve wrote: post #14

cmelbye wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct, an app with a binary compiled using the iOS SDK will not run on your Android device, if that's what you're implying. Is that surprising?

That's not what he was implying... he wants to trigger a download from a non-Apple device (say, Chrome on a Linux PC) and have it download (or readily available to download) on his iPad.

Or what I want - to be able to purchase an iPad app from my iPhone. Even if I can't download it on the device I'm currently on, I should be able to make the purchase.

Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.

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Post by baddox » Mon, Feb 13, 2012, 2:12 AM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #11

Simply placing a QR code to the URL onscreen will cut this process down drastically.

If you have a decent URL, I find that it's usually more of a hassle to open my code-scanning app and taking a picture than it is to just type the URL into my phone's browser.

Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.

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Post by aarondf » Mon, Feb 13, 2012, 4:15 AM UTC

I'm loving the drop-in effect used for the download form on FullContact. Anyone know if there's a jquery plugin for this?

Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.

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Post by rhizome » Mon, Feb 13, 2012, 8:00 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #22

rhizome wrote: post #11

Simply placing a QR code to the URL onscreen will cut this process down drastically.

If you have a decent URL, I find that it's usually more of a hassle to open my code-scanning app and taking a picture than it is to just type the URL into my phone's browser.

The QR should be a link to the app in whatever store. One click to the app's install page is quicker than every other app store interface out there.

If there is a QR everywhere where someone is going "hey, i tried this and it was pretty good for X and Y," there could be a lot more synergy between magazines and billboards and the internet than it is now where everybody thinks it's just some weird Korean thing. Even Microsoft detects this and creates their own home-grown remake in case having an American, IP-encumbered icon was the barrier to adoption, which it apparently wasn't. It's a bummer, man.

Re: Want me to download your app? Please do this.

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Post by mcritz » Mon, Feb 13, 2012, 8:04 AM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #10

mcritz wrote: post #8

This 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.

I'm trying to think of someone I know who owns an iOS device, is literate enough to uninstall iTunes, but not literate enough to find the “mail” feature of their browser.