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Maybe this is a controversial opinion but I think I agree with Apple here. The Google and Microsoft stores are absolutely full of completely useless featureles
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
Maybe this is a controversial opinion but I think I agree with Apple here.
The Google and Microsoft stores are absolutely full of completely useless featureless apps, many of which exist only to trick you into thinking that it is something else.
My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be.
- Gigachad 4y agoEspecially now that you can add a website as an icon to the home screen and it largely feels like a real app.
- Aeolun 4y agoThat feature is much too hidden to consider it a viable option for the mainsteam.
- mjamesaustin 4y agoAh, so Reddit for example should not be allowed an app?
- LeoPanthera 4y agoI mean, that's a bad example, the Reddit app is absolute garbage.
- Loeffelmann 4y agoI guess airbnb shouldn't have an app
- Apocryphon 4y agoOr Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Netflix, food delivery sites, basically any website (according to the GP)
- ricardobeat 4y agoThere is a pretty big difference in apps where you have an account and interact in real-time with service providers, notifications are a critical part of it, etc. Browsing a list of events is nothing like it
- Apocryphon 4y agoWhat if it uses GPS and sorts the list by proximity to events? Does that make use of the phone’s capabilities?
- aendruk 4y agoYou say it sarcastically, but yes, I do hold that view. Our current norms are absurd.
- Loeffelmann 4y agoWhat app so you think deserves to be an app
- gerash 4y agoI'm sure you'd love it when Apple starts pushing a whitelist of "high quality" URLs to your phone banning you from going to any other website to keep you safe from the trashy parts of the web.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThat's a slippery slope argument, and a bad one.
- yellowapple 4y ago> My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be. By this logic the overwhelmingly vast majority of the App Store's catalog shouldn't exist. ...and I wouldn't necessarily object to that outcome, but still.
- duskwuff 4y ago> My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? More to the point: "Is this app interactive?" I'm not convinced this one is. It displays information and allows the user to passively do things with that information (like adding shows to their calendar or buying tickets), but there's nothing the user can do to customize their experience within the app.
- _-david-_ 4y ago>My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be. Can't every app other than a browser, phone and messaging be a website?