Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News
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Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News
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#2This points to something I've been talking about with college founders to be: when you think about building something for something you yourself use (i.e. a smartphone) - think about how YOU use that thing.
I would posit that most of what I and average mid-adopters use their smart phones for is mobile web and/or apps that exist on the web first. Mobile web, Google, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all web first or mobile web. Apps are great, but if you're building a native app first ask yourself: why? Is it because you think the App Store is the only place people find things on smartphones or do you NEED native functionality?
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#3This points to something I've been talking about with college founders to be: when you think about building something for something you yourself use (i.e. a smartphone) - think about how YOU use that thing. I would posit that most of what I and average mid-adopters use their smart phones for is mobile web and/or apps that exist on the web first. Mobile web, Google, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all web first or…
Geo-location/push notifications or massive speed upgrades are great reasons. Not saying there aren't great reasons. But the mobile web is an active fucking place y'all.
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#4Does browser access include with RSS feed accessing? Because news aggregators are clearly superior in this sense; why check 10 different apps when one can use 1 app to check the raw data that those other 10 provide?
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#5This points to something I've been talking about with college founders to be: when you think about building something for something you yourself use (i.e. a smartphone) - think about how YOU use that thing. I would posit that most of what I and average mid-adopters use their smart phones for is mobile web and/or apps that exist on the web first. Mobile web, Google, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all web first or…
Geo-location/push notifications or massive speed upgrades are great reasons. Not saying there aren't great reasons. But the mobile web is an active fucking place y'all.
I'm just a lowly webapp developer, but geo-location is trivially easy in HTML5. Is there something I'm missing?
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#6I'm going to say the reason is more simple. Opening tabs is a nicer user experience than opening up one app after another.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geo-location/push notifications or massive speed upgrades are great reasons. Not saying there aren't great reasons. But the mobile web is an active fucking place y'all.
I'm just a lowly webapp developer, but geo-location is trivially easy in HTML5. Is there something I'm missing?
Not nearly as good as native for precise location. Although there's been some speculation that can be overcome, but yeah.
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#8For a long time now I've wondered why newspaper groups don't come together and build a common walled garden tablet. Android tablets are starting to get very cheap, why not fork android, build your own "news" app store with some very basic rules e.g.
1) only news based services + perhaps twitter & facebook for sharing 2) no free content
Newspapers offer their customers the readers at a subsidised price maybe $19.99 or similar and adopt a "tablet" first doctrine for news.
Might be a way to get people to pay for news...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just a lowly webapp developer, but geo-location is trivially easy in HTML5. Is there something I'm missing?
Not nearly as good as native for precise location. Although there's been some speculation that can be overcome, but yeah.
The geolocation API will be as precise as the information the device feeds it. There is no reason it shouldn't be as accurate as the native API. Unless the device doesn't want to provide a data feed to the browser API for some reason.
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#10I can tell you why I use the NY times mobile site instead of the Android app on my Galaxy Nexus: the ads. The ad on the mobile app stays on the screen when you scroll the content. It's frequently an obnoxious color that distracts from the article. In the browser, the ads are similar but as you scroll down they leave the screen.
Simple, but it's enough to make me abandon their Android app.