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Reddit for iOS and Android
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, "anywhere" makes it actively worse.
I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US. It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.
No, it's like what's actually true - that they don't think about those places and therefore do things like write slogans with the mindset that such people don't exist.
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#63I believe that if you look at this moment a year from now, it will be a major inflection point, bringing reddit to a much larger audience.
We're all tech savvy on this site and may not mind monkeying with the previous third-party apps, but there's a much wider audience that will be willing to use a well-supported first-party app.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
This new app got released minutes ago. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Give it some time.
This app is not a one-week MVP of a side project released by a developer with zero resources. It is, however, an app with legitimate substitutes, so an incumbent must be equal or significantly greater.
I hope there continue to be legitimate substitutes. I still remember when Twitter decided to add the key limit to their API shortly after releasing their official mobile clients, for the sake of "maintaining a consistent user experience" or something like that.
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#65There's a good checklist of app features, per /r/AlienBlue: https://np.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/4dqajk/new_reddit... The big feature omission is no iPad support , which I am legitimately curious why they would leave that out. If you are looking for a iOS Reddit client, I strongly recommend Antenna, which is amazing on an iPad as well due to Split View.
Prolly due to having limited dev/qa resources? (complete guess)
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#66Hmm. Still can't see it in the Portuguese iOS App Store.
This sort of thing happens time and again when someone fails to click the right options when publishing an app (typically in the US) :)
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#67> This item isn't available in your country. It's an app for Reddit. Go figure. I'll be sticking with Sync (Android), which doesn't have this bewildering region restriction, has tons of features and faithfully follows Material.
We're now available in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally. I'm sorry it's not available in your country -- we're planning on getting it out everywhere.
I'm sorry, but as an occasional iOS developer, and seeing the amount of Portuguese users you guys have on Reddit, I find it hard to take that at face value. Is it the localised blurb you need? Crowdsource it.
Heck, I'll do it. Ping me.
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#68I believe that if you look at this moment a year from now, it will be a major inflection point, bringing reddit to a much larger audience. We're all tech savvy on this site and may not mind monkeying with the previous third-party apps, but there's a much wider audience that will be willing to use a well-supported first-party app.
The problem is no one really uses apps anymore. Especially to view a website when you already have a mobile app that does that for you (your browser). This feature is 3 years too late in my mind to be a needle mover.
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#69There's a good checklist of app features, per /r/AlienBlue: https://np.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/4dqajk/new_reddit... The big feature omission is no iPad support , which I am legitimately curious why they would leave that out. If you are looking for a iOS Reddit client, I strongly recommend Antenna, which is amazing on an iPad as well due to Split View.
Prolly due to having limited dev/qa resources? (complete guess)
Dev? I wouldn't think so. Autolayout and size classes handle most of that.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were generous with the gold because they're probably going to shut AlienBlue down. AB doesn't have any ads, they can't make money off those users.
They're not shutting AlienBlue down, but they removed it from the App Store, and they are not updating it anymore.
Ugh. So disappointed.