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India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by pbreit »

nahname wrote: post #19
CydeWeys wrote: post #2

Unreal. Do they really expect it to cost more to maintain their web presence in addition to their mobile app than their web presence will make them? If you already have a back-end for servicing all of those mobile apps, is having an HTML front-end really that difficult? I vastly prefer doing almost anything I can think of on a real desktop with big displays and a good keyboard over a mobile app. Am I that out of touc…

>Why would anyone, that has a choice in the matter, prefer a mobile app for shopping. That's the clincher. No desktop, no choice.

Well, the choice is to use a competing service that offers a (likely superior) desktop experience.

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by hellbanner »

hiby007 wrote: post #14

I am an regular Flipkart User, and I do not like this behaviour, Flipkart is forcing me to move to an mobile app, just to have better control and tracking. They have already stopped supporting the mobile website, and it simply instructs you to download the app to continue. This is the moment I have completely stopped using flipkart and moved to amazon.in I like website more than app, both gets the job done, where as…

What the freaking hell. Android permissions are jacked up.

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by davidu »

Strategy hypothesis --

They believe they have more knowledge of how to execute in the mobile space than amazon or other outside incumbents and so they think they can move faster and better by shutting off the power alley's of the incumbents (web) by driving the warzone to mobile.

It's a strategy... and just a hypothesis as to some of their thinking... but maybe? :-)

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by estava »

harryf wrote: post #10
CydeWeys wrote: post #2

Unreal. Do they really expect it to cost more to maintain their web presence in addition to their mobile app than their web presence will make them? If you already have a back-end for servicing all of those mobile apps, is having an HTML front-end really that difficult? I vastly prefer doing almost anything I can think of on a real desktop with big displays and a good keyboard over a mobile app. Am I that out of touc…

> I vastly prefer doing almost anything I can think of on a real desktop with big displays and a good keyboard over a mobile app. Am I that out of touch? Yes I'm afraid you are. Worth watching Luke Wroblewski talking about Mobile at Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-FMTPsgy_Y ... some graphs near the start help make this clear.

Interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

hellbanner wrote: post #24
hiby007 wrote: post #14

I am an regular Flipkart User, and I do not like this behaviour, Flipkart is forcing me to move to an mobile app, just to have better control and tracking. They have already stopped supporting the mobile website, and it simply instructs you to download the app to continue. This is the moment I have completely stopped using flipkart and moved to amazon.in I like website more than app, both gets the job done, where as…

What the freaking hell. Android permissions are jacked up.

Oh, don't worry, it gets worse:

* Android does not let you selectively grant permissions (unlike iOS)

* Android expects you to give an app all permissions at once at install time, carte blanche (unlike iOS)

* Doing certain very basic things often requires a broad permission - for example, checking if music is playing so the app can mute itself? "Read phone state" - which includes the phone number you're calling

* Google are actively making this worse by making Android permissions broader on Google Play - rather than accept something very specific, you now accept an entire category!

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by reactor »

hiby007 wrote: post #14

I am an regular Flipkart User, and I do not like this behaviour, Flipkart is forcing me to move to an mobile app, just to have better control and tracking. They have already stopped supporting the mobile website, and it simply instructs you to download the app to continue. This is the moment I have completely stopped using flipkart and moved to amazon.in I like website more than app, both gets the job done, where as…

The above concerns would never bother (coz they are not aware) average population , which is more than 95% I guess. Rest is something Fipkart may be willing to trade off.

Re: India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile

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Post by artursapek »

dankohn1 wrote: post #13

I love Amazon Prime Now in NYC (free 2 hour delivery of tens of thousands of items), but am constantly annoyed to have to pull out my iPhone to use it. Of course, I presume Amazon is doing a mobile-first rather than a web-never strategy.

What's so terrible about "pulling out your iPhone"?
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