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Sending an email from a tablet or phone isn't an excuse for errors and typos.
i suppose this opinion would vary by recipient. more importantly, already addressed, is the context it provides around the time spent on a response. in most cases, when responding on a mobile device, you simply can't put the same time into a response. i think it's considerate.
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They want to have push/local notifications. It's like getting ahold of an email, but moreso. I've turned off Javascript to avoid them asking, now I constantly get "turn on your javascript" black overlays from Wordpress sites. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Oh, their motives are clear... It's the fact that they are doing absolutely nothing to entice the user to go through the inconvenience. This won't last.
My dream is having some AdBlock-style filters for misbehaving websites, run by tens of thousands of people. Then we could nip these practices in the bud.
Fscking Tapatalk. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever install your app, even if it scratches my back. Ever; just because of your incessant, annoying spam on every god damn forum I ever go to. Give me a global opt-out. I can't wait to get over this hard-on for native apps. ABC, you too, for god's sake, I clicked on a random news story, I don't need your app.
Tapatalk's actually pretty good. The UI is far superior to most old PHPBB and vBulletin forums and it's well worth the small one-off purchase price if you visit these types of forums regularly. I wish news.yc had Tapatalk support.
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They want to have push/local notifications. It's like getting ahold of an email, but moreso. I've turned off Javascript to avoid them asking, now I constantly get "turn on your javascript" black overlays from Wordpress sites. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
They also get unique identifiers for users. Yes the GUID is banned, but developers just use the devices MAC address instead.
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> That's why native apps are still important. Once the above is figured out, I highly doubt companies will want to pay to develop on 2-3 different codebases in different programming languages than their website, to support native apps. But that's the thing: we're talking about forums and news sites here. Mobile browsers are perfectly capable of rendering news, blogs and forums as fast as you'd ever need. Companies ar…
Aren't forums generally all running the same software? I'll bet having a mobile app is just a feature of that suite of software. Probably because the company making the software heard from some of their customers that they wanted that as a feature.
I avoid this problem by instantly boycotting any site that does this. They clearly have absolutely no interest in serving me content or helping me do what I want to do, and there is always an alternative.
There is really no alternative to Linked In - there is other software that does the same thing but since no one in my network uses it, that would be worthless to me.
Amen. To borrow a quote from Alton Brown, "I hate unitaskers." -- applies to apps, as well as, kitchen tools.
I avoid this problem by instantly boycotting any site that does this. They clearly have absolutely no interest in serving me content or helping me do what I want to do, and there is always an alternative.
There is really no alternative to Linked In - there is other software that does the same thing but since no one in my network uses it, that would be worthless to me.
Since I moved to Android and saw the permissions their app wants (access to my phone calls and calendar, among others), I've found a great alternative: they can wait until I get to my desktop, if I bother remembering.
The idea of using an iPhone app to browse a particular website reminds me of AOL keywords like "www.cbs.com". Every time I see an "Ask HN: what app do you use for HN?" I wonder why people don't just use the browser. What is the allure?
I don't know how to make a bookmark on the "desktop" of my phone, and I'd rather use an app than look it up.
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> You spend the time and money developing an app, and you want your visitors to know about the app The problem is that you're thinking about what you want, not what your users want. Your users want to view whatever content they came to your webpage to view. stop getting in the way of that with your wants. the answer really is that all such things suck, your position just seems to be that you don't care how much they…
Here you are just projecting your own underinfomed feelings about it on everyone else. Is there no situation where you see an app as being superior to the website? For AppShopper.com, yes the app is the superior experience to the mobile web. There were overwhelming requests for an app. We made the app to serve our users. Our goals and user goals are not always mutually exclusive.