Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use "sent from my rotary phone"
"Sent from my Dymo Labeler" here
Sent from an imaginary device.
"i"pad - get it? :)
I don't want to download your app
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Re: I don't want to download your app
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people do care. It gives context to short emails or emails with errors.
Then change it to 'Sent from my phone.' - changing it is a couple clicks, and anybody advertising a product in every message they send deserves any derision they get.
Derision? Do you also deride people wearing shirts with a crocodile on them? People driving cars with a little lightning bolt in a circle? Businesses issuing paper invoices with the supplier's name printed on the invoice form? (Practices may vary by country.)
Leaving this one line unchanged says ~= zero about a person.
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#153The Delta iPhone app saved my ass and let me check in right before the cut-off for flight I needed to make, while I was stuck in traffic in a cab outside the airport. However, downloading the app was preceded by ten minutes of trying desperately to check in using the Delta web site on my iPhone. I was stymied by a combination of strangely sized fonts (which forced me to zoom way in on a huge page in order to locate a…
> In any other circumstance, I would have given up, gone to a competitor, and filed the company and brand name in my brain under "fuck you." (Actually, I did that last part anyway.) This is why I never want to own an airline: you get blamed when your customer leaves his house too late to be at the airport on time.
Why the hate? He said "check in right before the cut-off", so he was on time. This could just as well have happened at any other location any other day and be just as annoying/time-wasting. For example if you tried to check-in from a hotel where the mobile is still your only internet device the situation wouldn't change.
The situation doesn't change the fact that the UX for mobile users is/was very bad.
Re: I don't want to download your app
#154Most of the time I just visit a site from my phone because somebody posted a link on Twitter. I visit the site for the very first time and won't see it again. Why bothering me?
Make an ad in the sidebar but don't open a fucking confirm window!
Re: I don't want to download your app
#155Believe it or not but there are heavy user on all of those websites who probably love those apps. They are the target audience for those apps (even if the app publishes don't realize that). Only because those websites are less famous than e.g. reddit or HN, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't offer their own app.
The real issue here is how they inform you about this app. The less intrusive and obnoxious they do this, the better, obviously.
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#156Are there any web templates, frameworks, libraries, or whatever that are carefully crafted to look exactly like the native app UIs on major phone platforms? If more developers used them, more users might develop a preference for web apps over native apps as a default policy.
Re: I don't want to download your app
#157Re: I don't want to download your app
#158The Delta iPhone app saved my ass and let me check in right before the cut-off for flight I needed to make, while I was stuck in traffic in a cab outside the airport. However, downloading the app was preceded by ten minutes of trying desperately to check in using the Delta web site on my iPhone. I was stymied by a combination of strangely sized fonts (which forced me to zoom way in on a huge page in order to locate a…
I thought most airlines let you check in via a web app. But maybe I'm spoilt - Australian airlines are a lot less competitive than US ones (they aren't often bankrupt), and perhaps they can afford such niceties.
US airline bankruptcies explained: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
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#159A collection of bad mobile web experiences (app download blockers etc) are showcased here http://wtfmobileweb.com/
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#160Yes! This frustrates me to no end. A surprising culprit is (or was, I stopped using them because of this) Hipmunk. I would think that a new, web-savvy company would have a reasonable web site. But they don't. Their web site is complete garbage on a mobile device and the solution is to download their app. Sorry guys, not gonna happen.