Samuel
@samuel.fm
the website: please please please download our app please please please please the app: oh shit didn’t think that’d actually work. what the heck do we do now?? screw it, webview time
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Michael Rutter
"Please, our marketing team really really wants to be able to send you push notifications" is like most of these apps. I'm convinced that marketing and advertising is the main push for mobile over web for a lot of services.
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Davis Bickford
It opens the web view for (nearly?) everything then has a “download our app” banner at the top, in the web view 😂
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Nick
Also in this category: please provide your booking number and surname for every session, we don’t have a login system
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Mihailiк ᵖᵒ⁶ᵒᵐᵃ
Yes, and there's no rational benefit of app over web. BlueSki has no business messing with hardware, or Address Book etc. Web is a safer model, easier to code too.
ROWAN
These web-only people on their “smartphone”, we need to send them back to WAP sites!
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Cyberhamster 3000
So we get websites that are only a few kb big, don't pester me for location, notifications or cookie permissions and don't support auto playing video ads? I think that would actually improve the experience a lot...
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Lunar
I use the web version of youtube because it lets me instantly skip ads on demand :) (I am cursed to not have an android)
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Briar, a shiny noodle
Followed by "oops, our app doesn't handle this particular feature, go to the website to do that" with the website throwing all phone browsers to the app/play store.
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Ledow
And then you get this... And then they badger you still constantly to use the app.
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Hailey 💜
it's a webview but it constantly tracks your location with no opt out and sends you marketing notifications in the same channel as actually important ones