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Non-HN users have it worst. My parents (~75yo) have Androids and they essentially ignore all notifications. They allowed notifications on a few clickbaity news

by soneca 7y ago

Non-HN users have it worst. My parents (~75yo) have Androids and they essentially ignore all notifications. They allowed notifications on a few clickbaity news websites that spam then with tens of notifications a day. So they just don't know what it is and ignore them all, including potential relevant ones (like Whatsapp messages from family). I, as a creator of a web app that would benefit a lot from notifications, would appreciate Apple adding push notifications to web. But I understand their choice

kennydude 7y ago
Thing is with iOS notifications as they are, if you ignore them the system suggests you to revoke the notification permissions so it's not really an issue
- soneca 7y ago
  I am not exactly sure what you are saying as I don't have an iOS either, but I was talking about their phones that are Android. Anyway, a mere suggestion to turn notifications off will be likely as ignored as the spammy notifications themselves. That are a lot of assumptions that people used to phone technology make about what is logical, easy, intuitive or obvious that do not hold for people who lived for 50 years before mobile phones existed
aitchnyu 7y ago
IIRC, my movie booking app has permission to read SMS OTP and once tried to bait me saying my Amazon package was delayed. Seems it read my package notifications too.
0xcoffee 7y ago
Hi soneca This is unrelated to your comment, but I saw a past submission of yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276956 and was wondering how your experience went (as I am now in the same position), but did not see an email in your profile to contact you.
- soneca 7y ago
  Hi, I just saw this now. My email is in my profile, the last line. Anyway, my experience went terribly! lol Not much learning though. I stayed there for only 5 or 6 weeks because of a very toxic work environment, with a workaholic culture and a very micromanaging boss that did not trust me (not sure why I was hired in the first place). After that, I decided to study fulltime to learn to code and now I am a happy frontend developer. But if you want to email me with details of your position, I do think I can help you.

by soneca 7y ago

kennydude 7y ago

Thing is with iOS notifications as they are, if you ignore them the system suggests you to revoke the notification permissions so it's not really an issue

soneca 7y ago
I am not exactly sure what you are saying as I don't have an iOS either, but I was talking about their phones that are Android. Anyway, a mere suggestion to turn notifications off will be likely as ignored as the spammy notifications themselves. That are a lot of assumptions that people used to phone technology make about what is logical, easy, intuitive or obvious that do not hold for people who lived for 50 years before mobile phones existed

aitchnyu 7y ago

IIRC, my movie booking app has permission to read SMS OTP and once tried to bait me saying my Amazon package was delayed. Seems it read my package notifications too.

0xcoffee 7y ago

Hi soneca This is unrelated to your comment, but I saw a past submission of yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276956 and was wondering how your experience went (as I am now in the same position), but did not see an email in your profile to contact you.

soneca 7y ago
Hi, I just saw this now. My email is in my profile, the last line. Anyway, my experience went terribly! lol Not much learning though. I stayed there for only 5 or 6 weeks because of a very toxic work environment, with a workaholic culture and a very micromanaging boss that did not trust me (not sure why I was hired in the first place). After that, I decided to study fulltime to learn to code and now I am a happy frontend developer. But if you want to email me with details of your position, I do think I can help you.