Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

A bit OT, but is it at all possible to browse pinterest.com from an iPad? All I get is a full-screen non-dismissible overlay forcing me to install their app. Any ways around this?

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by dang » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 9:29 AM UTC

marban wrote: post #2

Add: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2015/02/12/apple-pairs-...

We changed the url to that from http://blog.pinterest.com/post/110786995184/install-the-best... because it is more informative.

Re: Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 9:50 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #4

A bit OT, but is it at all possible to browse pinterest.com from an iPad? All I get is a full-screen non-dismissible overlay forcing me to install their app. Any ways around this?

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Post by zaroth » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 10:03 AM UTC

mandeepj wrote: post #3

if you can install an app from google play store's website to your android phone then why can't apple provide the same feature?

I would imagine Apple's intent would be to potentially allow that on pinterest.com, or perhaps on any site which pays a hefty fee.

The closer we can get to selling apps directly on websites, the more the app store becomes irrelevant. You still have to go through review to get the file signatures, but perhaps you can pull the binaries from a different source.

That would be a really interesting vertical.

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Post by Jolijn » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 10:05 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #4

A bit OT, but is it at all possible to browse pinterest.com from an iPad? All I get is a full-screen non-dismissible overlay forcing me to install their app. Any ways around this?

No, there is no way around it. It's a verrrry annoying strategy and I'm not sure it's worth the aggravation it causes to people like me with only a casual interest in pinterest.

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Post by jon-wood » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 10:24 AM UTC

zaroth wrote: post #7

mandeepj wrote: post #3

if you can install an app from google play store's website to your android phone then why can't apple provide the same feature?

I would imagine Apple's intent would be to potentially allow that on pinterest.com, or perhaps on any site which pays a hefty fee. The closer we can get to selling apps directly on websites, the more the app store becomes irrelevant. You still have to go through review to get the file signatures, but perhaps you can pull the binaries from a different source. That would be a really interesting vertical.

I think they were referring to the feature on the Play store which allows you to request an app be installed on another device from the web interface, rather than being able to download APKs from the internet.

I find it a really nice touch when I've been linked to an app from another site to be able to instantly get it installed on my mobile without having to fish it out of my pocket and do something silly like take a photo of a QR code.

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Post by kalleboo » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #4

A bit OT, but is it at all possible to browse pinterest.com from an iPad? All I get is a full-screen non-dismissible overlay forcing me to install their app. Any ways around this?

In the bottom right I get a plaintext unstyled link that says "Continue in browser"