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I find this an unnecessary flame. That’s why Apple introduced Smart App Banners for iOS and they work just fine. The problem is just with those redirect you to a separate app download page. http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/09/20/implementing-smart-ap...
I hate those things. They drastically reduce the viewable height of the actual content I'm trying to look at.
I find this an unnecessary flame. That’s why Apple introduced Smart App Banners for iOS and they work just fine. The problem is just with those redirect you to a separate app download page. http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/09/20/implementing-smart-ap...
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?
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?
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?
Hacker News is usable on mobile Safari, but it's not as good as it could be. Try using Alien Blue to browse reddit on an iPhone (and especially an iPad). It is a superior experience to using the plain web site (even m.reddit.com). I very much wish there was an equivalent for Hacker News.
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 think the easy answer is "all such things suck". You spend the time and money developing an app, and you want your visitors to know about the app. The prime candidates are those who visit your site on that device. So, the targeting is right, but the execution is what typically sucks. From my own personal experience, if I'm visiting a specific article on the site, my immediate interest is getting the informati…
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 suck because you have an agenda to push.
I think there is a fascinating split personality to the internet these days. On the one hand, there is a big drive to move traditional desktop application functionality into the web browser (e.g. google and microsoft's office web apps, photo editing, and even some computation in the case of Wolfram Alpha.) On the other hand, there is a big drive to push traditional internet content into standalone apps, as this autho…
The long term push is towards html5 mobile apps period. The only problem is performance (which is improving), immature javascript programming libraries/communities and poor adoption of HTML5 mobile features by the OSes (such as being able to use datepickers and other essential APIs for building apps). That's why native apps are still important. Once the above is figured out, I highly doubt companies will want to pay…
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 aren't building these kinds of native apps for the performance.
This is one of the best advantages android has over iOS - you don't have all those goddamn app nag screens all over the internet.
And it's really goddamn annoying.