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Many people do care. It gives context to short emails or emails with errors.
Sending an email from a tablet or phone isn't an excuse for errors and typos.
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Many people do care. It gives context to short emails or emails with errors.
Sending an email from a tablet or phone isn't an excuse for errors and typos.
The 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…
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> just because of your incessant, annoying spam on every god damn sent from my iphone. sent from my ipad. yeah, because I care what device you sent me an email from. sent from my desktop computer using firefox.
Many people do care. It gives context to short emails or emails with errors.
The 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.
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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.
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Sending an email from a tablet or phone isn't an excuse for errors and typos.
i suppose this opinion would vary by recipient. more importantly, already addressed, is the context it provides around the time spent on a response. in most cases, when responding on a mobile device, you simply can't put the same time into a response. i think it's considerate.
Many emails do necessitate a reply but you aren't going to be able to spellcheck and put the time into it as you would on a desktop. Afterall, you are mobile.
Stating so in the signature lets the recipient know you are giving them your full attention as much as the technology and situation will allow. I've always felt it was a good thing when users noted this.
And of course, as someone has mentioned, it is the default on iOS devices. Then again, users unable to edit their default signature probably aren't giving you their full attention and the reply will amount to yes/no or worse, not answer a single question with any sort of detail. Not that if the user were on a desktop that would change a bit. I'm not sure how these people are employed as I would fire so many people over the way they handle email.
The 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…
The irritating part is that, even if I decide I want the app, I still have to use the website to see the particular piece of content I was linked to. Most sites just tell you to get their app, they don't deep link into the app when you do have it.
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> That's why native apps are still important. Once the above is figured out, I highly doubt companies will want to pay to develop on 2-3 different codebases in different programming languages than their website, to support native apps. 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 ar…
A better explanation is that apps are simply the fashion right now. Everybody and their brother doesn't need a web page any more than they need an app.
If you take ads from a typical ad network and put them in a mobile web page, the page probably will look terrible, and a lot of people have ad blockers in their browsers anyway. (Mobile Firefox recommends AdBlock in its home screen.)
A lot of mobile apps, on the other hand, have ads that cannot be removed except by rooting your phone, and even then, many ads slip through. (I use Android with AdAway.)
Also, people are more used to paying $0.99 for apps than they are to paying for web pages.