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It's strange when I read about what some companies spend on apps (e.g. some crypto prices + news + educational videos) where they could've gotten away with Word

It's strange when I read about what some companies spend on apps (e.g. some crypto prices + news + educational videos) where they could've gotten away with Wordpress, Youtube and some API for the data. Instead of focusing on content, they spend months of multiple developers building an app, struggle with maintaining it on iOS and Android and have won the ability to ... I don't know, I guess you can now use the gyroscope and accelerometer to suggest shit coins to track? Is "being in the appstore" worth that much because it's starting to be the primary thing people search when they're looking for something instead of Google?

jstarfish 4y ago
> I guess you can now use the gyroscope and accelerometer to suggest shit coins to track? No, you build a sizable userbase and sell out to some unscrupulous buyer who backdoors the app in a future update.
- hgsgm 4y ago
  No you just take money to install unscrupulous libraries.
toyg 4y ago
> and have won the ability to ... ... track you a bit better and get paid a bit more easily (if with a hefty tax), but more importantly, they can be on the Home screen of users, which people will look at a billion times per day. Yes you can bookmark a website - and nobody does, it gets buried in some submenu you don't even know how to bring back up. Yes you can pin a bookmark on the Home screen, but people don't know how - and even if they did, they likely wouldn't get a nice icon, and it would launch an irrelevant browser interface around it, and it would all feel a bit crappy. Whereas, people know very well how to install an app. They'll automatically get a nice big logo on their home screen, and when they tap it the magic will happen as it's supposed to be. The big logo will remind them every other minute that they might want to access the service. Etc etc.
- hgsgm 4y ago
  On Android at least, PWAs look like native apps.
  - dickersnoodle 4y ago
    Does that mean they look equally good or equally bad?
the_gipsy 4y ago
Being in the appstore, ratings, mobile singups... all that shit makes great manager objectives.

jstarfish 4y ago

> I guess you can now use the gyroscope and accelerometer to suggest shit coins to track? No, you build a sizable userbase and sell out to some unscrupulous buyer who backdoors the app in a future update.

hgsgm 4y ago
No you just take money to install unscrupulous libraries.

toyg 4y ago

> and have won the ability to ... ... track you a bit better and get paid a bit more easily (if with a hefty tax), but more importantly, they can be on the Home screen of users, which people will look at a billion times per day. Yes you can bookmark a website - and nobody does, it gets buried in some submenu you don't even know how to bring back up. Yes you can pin a bookmark on the Home screen, but people don't know how - and even if they did, they likely wouldn't get a nice icon, and it would launch an irrelevant browser interface around it, and it would all feel a bit crappy. Whereas, people know very well how to install an app. They'll automatically get a nice big logo on their home screen, and when they tap it the magic will happen as it's supposed to be. The big logo will remind them every other minute that they might want to access the service. Etc etc.

hgsgm 4y ago
On Android at least, PWAs look like native apps.
- dickersnoodle 4y ago
  Does that mean they look equally good or equally bad?

the_gipsy 4y ago

Being in the appstore, ratings, mobile singups... all that shit makes great manager objectives.