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Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by prinny_ »

turblety wrote: post #137

I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…

Honestly I wonder the same. App stores have big % cuts for the provider, I believe Apple has a 30% cut? Surely this number is big enough to justify spending the resources for a mobile first site?

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Post by dagmx »

turblety wrote: post #137

I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…

While many native apps could be web apps, you’re ignoring a very large reasons for native apps:

1. Better UX and responsiveness for users, including better offline use.

2. Using native hardware APIs. How are you going to do things that require on device video compression, or realtime graphics that are more advanced than GL ES, etc

3. Battery life and performance. A native app can use less power than a web view for doing its work, and it can also make use of better async/concurrency/threading than a web view allows for.

Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by hnuser123456 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #371

That's why I like hacker news. I found this article yesterday and posted it on reddit android, here : https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jmwg4w/everyone_k... 0 upvote, comment filled with what is either depressed sad people or just bots. Here it's top 2... With mostly interesting comment. Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst.

The subreddit is mostly younger folks more aligned with the "fanboy" attitude, they downvoted because it was a critique of Android.

Hacker news understands the concept of constructive criticism.

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Post by rblatz »

divan wrote: post #336
mojuba wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, browser apps do have their advantages: - text is selectable - content is zoomable - you can have an ad/nuisance blocker - page source is open While native apps have their own advantages: - much smoother experience esp. navigation, scrolling, animations, etc. - better overall performance (JavaScript will always lose to the native binary) - access to hardware opens new possibilities; audio, video accelerato…

> browser apps do have their advantages: These are more like byproduct of the fact that web apps are built on the stack not suited for modern UI apps. It's literally a text typesetting engine pretending to be a rendering engine for high-performance UI. So, it can also be framed as: - everything is selectable, even what shouldn't be - buttons, drawers, video players, etc - content is zoomable, which most of the time j…

Disabling zoom is so hostile, why not disable screen readers and put bollards on handicapped ramps while you are at it. It’s literally a middle finger to older people and people with vision issues. If you disable zoom I will not be using your website.

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Post by thatloststudent »

weinzierl wrote: post #236

"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year" To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?

I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru.

Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online.

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Post by gopkarthik »

thatloststudent wrote: post #385
weinzierl wrote: post #236

"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year" To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?

I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru. Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online…

^ This.

You can read the reports at https://blume.vc/reports/indus-valley-annual-report-2025 or archives at https://www.indusvalleyreport.com/ .

The ppt in the blog is from the 2024 report - https://docsend.com/view/zqgfupfzyud499hn. The India 1-2-3 framework is old though. IIRC it was coined by a retail sector founder (Kishore Biyani) in the 2000s.

Also Koramangala, HSR layout are also the more affluent localities in Bengaluru.

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Post by IshKebab »

pasc1878 wrote: post #338
WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when you visit whatever URL is being wrapped?

You go to the nhs webpage and it works in the same way. Login is better on the iOS app as you can use touch id/faceId and not userid/password also the webpage asks for cookies as it can't seem to remember the choice

Really? What's the URL that would allow me to see test results and book appointments?

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Post by aio2 »

hnuser123456 wrote: post #383
aucisson_masque wrote: post #371

That's why I like hacker news. I found this article yesterday and posted it on reddit android, here : https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jmwg4w/everyone_k... 0 upvote, comment filled with what is either depressed sad people or just bots. Here it's top 2... With mostly interesting comment. Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst.

The subreddit is mostly younger folks more aligned with the "fanboy" attitude, they downvoted because it was a critique of Android. Hacker news understands the concept of constructive criticism.

I wouldn't say understand, but better understands

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Post by pavel_lishin »

thatloststudent wrote: post #385
weinzierl wrote: post #236

"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year" To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?

I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru. Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online…

Would it be analogous to Silicon Valley in America?

Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by xolve »

weinzierl wrote: post #282
xolve wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bengaluru/Bangalore has hotspots (PIN codes are postal address codes) where there are lots of startups, mostly in ecommerce, ad-tech, online education etc. and they have incentive to upsell you a lot. I guess its referring to someone wannabe influencer buying Twitter(X) premium and posting based on half baked info on customers. Mostly sarcasm, so take with a grain of salt. I can't tell about accuracy, but explaining…

Thanks, this is helpful. Is the certain week referring to a specific festival?

I don't know, sounds like any week.
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