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Ill bite. An app can provide notifications, integration and speed. An app can do a lot more caching than the app, and will never have to reload a version of it

by nwh 14y ago

Ill bite. An app can provide notifications, integration and speed. An app can do a lot more caching than the app, and will never have to reload a version of its own code. There's places were apps are appropriate, and this is one of them.

Nursie 14y ago
I understand some folks like to recieve fb message notifications as if they were email I guess. Don't feel the need myself. I guess I'm just questioning the need for an app for all things, when many of the things are just as well served by a decent page in a browser.
- andybak 14y ago
  The previous post gave more reasons that 'notifications'. Read it more carefully - the important one is 'integration' which covers a host of possible behaviour. One example - uploading photos straight from the camera. This is a html5 api but the browser support is appalling: http://caniuse.com/stream http://caniuse.com/stream More examples - integration with contacts? (i.e. appearing as an option next to call/text etc). Registering under the 'share' menu in Android? Registering as an Intent where appropriate? Ability to run background tasks? I don't know if Facebook uses these but there's certainly good reasons for an service with it's wide spread of potential functionality to do so.
  - Nursie 14y ago
    Those are good reasons for some people, sure. I guess I still see FB as 'just a page' rather than an full, integrated comms service. I really don't want it as a full integrated comms service!
- kalleboo 14y ago
  Facebook is currently the best IM platform in terms of functionality, stability and ubiquity. In that light, notifications are important.
  - nwh 14y ago
    They also have the best automatic presence detection, it's miles ahead of iMessage in that (and almost every other) regard. I want to dislike it, but Facebook has done a stellar job making their messaging system bullet-proof.
    - bookwormAT 14y ago
      I just downvoted you by accident, sorry. Maybe someone who really disagrees with parent can vote him up instead? :-)

by nwh 14y ago

Nursie 14y ago

I understand some folks like to recieve fb message notifications as if they were email I guess. Don't feel the need myself. I guess I'm just questioning the need for an app for all things, when many of the things are just as well served by a decent page in a browser.

andybak 14y ago
The previous post gave more reasons that 'notifications'. Read it more carefully - the important one is 'integration' which covers a host of possible behaviour. One example - uploading photos straight from the camera. This is a html5 api but the browser support is appalling: http://caniuse.com/stream http://caniuse.com/stream More examples - integration with contacts? (i.e. appearing as an option next to call/text etc). Registering under the 'share' menu in Android? Registering as an Intent where appropriate? Ability to run background tasks? I don't know if Facebook uses these but there's certainly good reasons for an service with it's wide spread of potential functionality to do so.
- Nursie 14y ago
  Those are good reasons for some people, sure. I guess I still see FB as 'just a page' rather than an full, integrated comms service. I really don't want it as a full integrated comms service!
kalleboo 14y ago
Facebook is currently the best IM platform in terms of functionality, stability and ubiquity. In that light, notifications are important.
- nwh 14y ago
  They also have the best automatic presence detection, it's miles ahead of iMessage in that (and almost every other) regard. I want to dislike it, but Facebook has done a stellar job making their messaging system bullet-proof.
  - bookwormAT 14y ago
    I just downvoted you by accident, sorry. Maybe someone who really disagrees with parent can vote him up instead? :-)