One way to know if a user is getting utility out of your product is to charge a monthly subscription. If a user is paying you, you know they are using the app and gaining utility from it, even if it's just a daily push notification. If they stop paying you, you know they are not getting utility from the app.
Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps
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#13Isn't the value from the number of installs of a app or the number of times someone paid for the app? Unless they started using notifications to send me ads....which with 100% certainty cause me to uninstall the app (if such a practice is even allowed).
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#14I know this is completely off topic, but is there any reason a website should have a rapidly changing gif animation as their tab icon? I tend to open a ton of tabs and leave them open ( particularly if they're interesting and I want to re-read it or refer to it in a blog post), but the constant oscillation of that tab icon is so distracting that I feel compelled to close that tab as soon as possible since it's going…
Came here to ask for a firefox add-on that disables favicons.
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#15This light interaction is exactly the sort of thing that products like Glass are going to excel at.
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#16I love this about Windows Phone's Live Tiles. I never open my weather app. I hardly ever open the Facebook app. I hardly ever open my stock market app. I just check their Live Tile, and at a glance it tells me exactly what I need to know. It's the biggest thing I miss, by far, when I'm using my Android phone. The information density of Android and iOS doesn't even come close, even with a proper notification center. I…
> Widgets just aren't comparable. I'm curios, I haven't used Windows Phone, what's not comparable?
The live-ness of tiles is overstated, in my opinion, but the concept of tiles is wonderful. Here's an example: you're going on a trip so you pin restaurants that look interesting from Urbanspoon, a map to your meeting location from Maps, and some sites you want to see from their web pages. It turns your home screen into a todo list, which is interesting to me.
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#17I love this about Windows Phone's Live Tiles. I never open my weather app. I hardly ever open the Facebook app. I hardly ever open my stock market app. I just check their Live Tile, and at a glance it tells me exactly what I need to know. It's the biggest thing I miss, by far, when I'm using my Android phone. The information density of Android and iOS doesn't even come close, even with a proper notification center. I…
I think the Google Now widget does quite a good job. It tells me the weather, if I have a package being delivered, sports scores, and quite a few other things. Granted, I've used Live Tiles and did find them pretty useful and I like the flat UI so I think my ideal experience would be a combination of both Now with Live Tiles.
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#18I know this is completely off topic, but is there any reason a website should have a rapidly changing gif animation as their tab icon? I tend to open a ton of tabs and leave them open ( particularly if they're interesting and I want to re-read it or refer to it in a blog post), but the constant oscillation of that tab icon is so distracting that I feel compelled to close that tab as soon as possible since it's going…
I had to test in most of my installed browsers before I found one that actually animated the icon - Firefox. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have all decided (rightly, you'll probably agree) that allowing animated favicons is not a good idea.
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#19Dark Sky definitely knows you're getting value on those notifications. Popular apps get positive ratings from happy users. Dark sky doesn't need a specific metric to tell them the notifications are working; having a bunch of people 5-star your app saying "I love the notifications!" is sufficient.
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#20The author says the app developers have no way of knowing if he's using their app. Now having never developed an iPhone/Android app, just want to confirm if it is true. Isn't it that their servers would know that they are sending push notification to a phone after all?