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iOS these days has a major problem of allowing webpages to redirect automatically to the app or worse, to the App Store. Every now and again I have to fight Am
by freehunter 7y ago
iOS these days has a major problem of allowing webpages to redirect automatically to the app or worse, to the App Store.
Every now and again I have to fight Amazon to let me open a link in Safari instead of the Amazon app. Generally it's because I cannot purchase the item inside of the app (digital content like movies and Kindle books), but they still automatically open the app and make me do a dance to get it in Safari. Same thing with Yelp, under no circumstances am I ever able to get a Yelp link to open on their website. YouTube does the same thing, and I've had Gmail do it a few times too.
It's one thing to show a banner at the top letting me know you have an app. But I never want to be directed from Safari into an app. If I wanted to use the app, I'd have opened the app. Since I'm in Safari, it means I want to use the web site.
- scarface74 7y agoWhy have the apps installed at all? There is nothing I can do in the apps that I can’t do on the websites. Usually the apps are worse.
- mcgrath_sh 7y agoWatching ESPN in the browser is a worse experience than ESPN’s app. I have the app on my phone for this. There are reasons to have apps on a phone. That said, it is infuriating that when I click an ESPN link on twitter, it opens in the ESPN app and not a web browser.
- scarface74 7y agoOften for video content, there isn’t a choice but to have the app on mobile. But for non video content, the app is usually worse. Also, I much rather go to the Youtube site on mobile than use the app.
- TylerE 7y agoDepends. The ESPN app is actually pretty shit. On my Smart TV it is a juddering, frame dropping mess. I actually get better streams by opening the ESPN site in Chrome, and casting the tab.
- scarface74 7y agoAll Smart TVs suck except the ones with integrated Roku.
- TylerE 7y agoIt’s not the TV. I stream 4k60 from YouTube quite happily.
- scarface74 7y agoIt’s the “smart” part that I was referring to. The Roku TV’s panels are just average.
- TylerE 7y agoIt's the "smart" part responsible for decoding the incoming bytestream.