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Is the lack of a gallery view a genuine technical constraint, or an artificial one introduced to get users to use the plugin?
by Asraelite 6y ago
Is the lack of a gallery view a genuine technical constraint, or an artificial one introduced to get users to use the plugin?
- Steltek 6y agoFalse dichotomy. There's a (likely) third option where they do not have sufficient engineering effort to do everything at once. Most users are on the app so that's where effort is applied. Yes, this means the webapp loses even more market share but thems the breaks.
- dhosek 6y agoGiven that Facebook removed functionality from the mobile web view that was present in earlier versions and is still there in the desktop view (messages, cough), I think that it's a very fair question to raise about Zoom's choice to not allow gallery view in the web app.
- Steltek 6y agoPutting aside that Zoom is not Facebook, "Zoom's choice to not allow gallery view" sounds very much like, "How long have you been beating your wife?" Zoom has not implemented gallery view. We know nothing about the whys, hows, and whats of the matter. Look, I prefer webapps when possible and keep mobile apps to a very minimum on my mobile (and preferably from F-Droid, at that). But I also understand that you can only do so much in a release and if your engineering team expertise, backlog, users, sales, EVERYTHING, is centered around native apps. Then damn it, you're going to make your native app look stellar because otherwise your competitors will get a leg up over you.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoI can still get FB Messages in the mobile web view by telling my browser to use Desktop view and ensuring the URL starts with "www" rather than "m." It's painful but it works. I deleted the FB app from my phone years ago (with difficulty because Samsung makes it undeletable by non-hackers) because the app gives FB far too much info about me.