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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.
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.
Then again, it's hardly a hard problem - it's just one that Apple has done almost nothing significant about over the years. Practically any solution is better for developers (and users) than the current status quo.
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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.
Isn't there a "Continue in browser" button right under the "Continue in App" button?
Looking for relevant apps in the Apple App Store is a growing problem. This should be a feature built within the App Store. Why can't Apple do the same? Why do they need another application/service to do the "app discovery" for them?
"Applications that include filtering, bookmarking, searching or sharing recommendations are not considered significantly different from the App Store, therefore they cannot be approved by Apple." http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/11/appidemia-shutting-down-aft...
Looking for relevant apps in the Apple App Store is a growing problem. This should be a feature built within the App Store. Why can't Apple do the same? Why do they need another application/service to do the "app discovery" for them?
I never see analysts charging Apple with sheer negligence in these things.
It's not for the lack of resources. They have warchests both here and offshore. Why they don't get behind these pesky problems beats me. I mean these are elementary things. Using your competitor to search for apps in your store has to be downright cringe-worthy.
The only explanation for this has to be that Apple is shoring up every last nickel for something much much larger. In the years to come we shall likely see Apple heading into complete virgin product territories.
Apps, phones and tablets must seem like a distraction - a sideshow if you will - to the people in the know at Apple. A distraction from the real mother lode of things they have been working on.
If proven true, this has to be the greatest execution of strategy secrecy and misleading of onlookers and industry watchers alike, every seen at a corporation.
Nothing else explains why such scant attention is paid to basic things like search, voice recognition (Siri which is again a laggard compared to Google Now / Cortana) or maps or any other facets of the Apple ecosytem.
This is a major app store problem that a lot of developers, particularly indie developers, have complained about, but Apple has seemingly ignored so far. It'd be quite amusing if the answer turned out to be "just plug Pinterest's engine into the app store"... if it was that simple. Then again, it's hardly a hard problem - it's just one that Apple has done almost nothing significant about over the years. Practically a…
Then again, it's hardly a hard problem
This is a major app store problem that a lot of developers, particularly indie developers, have complained about, but Apple has seemingly ignored so far. It'd be quite amusing if the answer turned out to be "just plug Pinterest's engine into the app store"... if it was that simple. Then again, it's hardly a hard problem - it's just one that Apple has done almost nothing significant about over the years. Practically a…
Then again, it's hardly a hard problem Eh, I'd expect app discovery to be reasonably hard when you have a few hundred thousand developers and marketers incentivised to do anything they can to game the system.
Here is an image of what looks like a worker in China manipulating App store rankings using an array of some hundred 5Cs.
http://i.imgur.com/EWyVh0X.jpg
And here is an image purportedly showing the prices for a Top 10 spot in Apple's App Store, achieved through ranking manipulation.
http://i.imgur.com/TZuf1iP.jpg
[1] This disturbing image of a Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones reveals how App Store rankings can be manipulated
http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-shows-how-fake-app-stor...
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Then again, it's hardly a hard problem Eh, I'd expect app discovery to be reasonably hard when you have a few hundred thousand developers and marketers incentivised to do anything they can to game the system.
Funny you should say that ! I came across these images less than a day ago. Here is an image of what looks like a worker in China manipulating App store rankings using an array of some hundred 5Cs. http://i.imgur.com/EWyVh0X.jpg And here is an image purportedly showing the prices for a Top 10 spot in Apple's App Store, achieved through ranking manipulation. http://i.imgur.com/TZuf1iP.jpg [1] This disturbing image of…
