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We have a few thousand apps on the App Store and got bit by this today. The SDK is very useful for a smooth login experience if the user has the Facebook app i

We have a few thousand apps on the App Store and got bit by this today. The SDK is very useful for a smooth login experience if the user has the Facebook app installed, because your app can offer Facebook as a login option, then just pop the user over to the Facebook app, they can tap “okay” (or whatever), and jump back to your app. That said, we’re going to rip this thing out of our apps ASAP. No framework should be calling network code in “+load”. The convenience for the user (and the dirty tracking Facebook apparently does) is just not worth the trade-off of handing our app’s stability over to Facebook.

jeffbee 6y ago
How can one developer have thousands of apps? It sounds just like a giant scattergun for malware. There are not 1000 distinct useful ways to use an iPhone.
- RandallBrown 6y ago
  A consulting company or a company that makes "white label" apps like for restaurants or stores.
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable?
    - whatthesmack 6y ago
      Sure, unless you’re one of those restaurants that wants their own app.
    - busymom0 6y ago
      That's not how it actually is. Apple actually rejects those type of template apps. The restaurants use an ad-hoc way of installing the apps. So those apps are only available to the restaurant for example.
      - JimDabell 6y ago
        No, Apple accepts white label applications. Their requirement is that if you're going to release a white label application, then it should be released under the customer's own individual Apple developer account rather than having them all under one developer account.
    - balladeer 6y ago
      I think individual businesses (I am talking about the neighbourhood grocery stores and restaurants) ought to move to their own websites, their own apps (at least branding if there are template apps) as much as they can. I believe we have had enough of centralisation and consolidation which aren't problematic only when they are about a messaging service or a social network.
    - rickdg 6y ago
      Yes, this should have been solved by the web, but you can't push notifications to it or rely on local storage (thanks to Apple). Also, generally people' don't even want to know what an URL is.
    - s_dev 6y ago
      >Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable? Nope, can't agree there. Every outlet/brand should have it's own app in my book.
      - hobs 6y ago
        For what purpose? Why not just a good website? Why do I need some integrated solution when its probably just a shim around their website anyway? That sounds awful tbqh, download a binary for every website that I have little control over.
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- munsters 6y ago
  They probably do contract app development, with 1000s of clients
- s_dev 6y ago
  >There are not 1000 distinct useful ways to use an iPhone. This comment reflects badly on your imagination. There are 00s of uses for a concrete brick -- let alone a single device with a plethora of distinct functions.

jeffbee 6y ago

How can one developer have thousands of apps? It sounds just like a giant scattergun for malware. There are not 1000 distinct useful ways to use an iPhone.

RandallBrown 6y ago
A consulting company or a company that makes "white label" apps like for restaurants or stores.
- jeffbee 6y ago
  Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable?
  - whatthesmack 6y ago
    Sure, unless you’re one of those restaurants that wants their own app.
  - busymom0 6y ago
    That's not how it actually is. Apple actually rejects those type of template apps. The restaurants use an ad-hoc way of installing the apps. So those apps are only available to the restaurant for example.
    - JimDabell 6y ago
      No, Apple accepts white label applications. Their requirement is that if you're going to release a white label application, then it should be released under the customer's own individual Apple developer account rather than having them all under one developer account.
  - balladeer 6y ago
    I think individual businesses (I am talking about the neighbourhood grocery stores and restaurants) ought to move to their own websites, their own apps (at least branding if there are template apps) as much as they can. I believe we have had enough of centralisation and consolidation which aren't problematic only when they are about a messaging service or a social network.
  - rickdg 6y ago
    Yes, this should have been solved by the web, but you can't push notifications to it or rely on local storage (thanks to Apple). Also, generally people' don't even want to know what an URL is.
  - s_dev 6y ago
    >Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable? Nope, can't agree there. Every outlet/brand should have it's own app in my book.
    - hobs 6y ago
      For what purpose? Why not just a good website? Why do I need some integrated solution when its probably just a shim around their website anyway? That sounds awful tbqh, download a binary for every website that I have little control over.
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munsters 6y ago
They probably do contract app development, with 1000s of clients
s_dev 6y ago
>There are not 1000 distinct useful ways to use an iPhone. This comment reflects badly on your imagination. There are 00s of uses for a concrete brick -- let alone a single device with a plethora of distinct functions.