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LOVE this, with one major caveat. I hate, Hate HATE the ads. It's a visceral level of rage that I find remarkable since that's not how I generally respond to in
by alexqgb 14y ago
LOVE this, with one major caveat. I hate, Hate HATE the ads. It's a visceral level of rage that I find remarkable since that's not how I generally respond to in-app ads.
They're just so very very wrong in this context, mainly because they're deliberately distracting. For someone trying to focus on delivering a presentation, this is 100% unacceptable. It would be tolerable (barely) if the ad never changed, but when the damn thing changes every few seconds, it's more than enough to break one's concentration. And that is LETHAL for public speaking.
I know HN guidelines discourage the use of caps for emphasis, and I almost never use them for this reason. But my negative reaction was SO strong that it's worth breaking protocol just to emphasize how awful those intrusions really are.
Aside from that one hideous, terrible, awful, repulsive, glaring deal-killer of a flaw, this app is brilliant. Bottom line: I'd pay $5 for a version without ads. I'd refuse to use it with ads.
- alakin 14y agoWhich QR code app are you using?
- alexqgb 14y agoScan for iPhone (the one they recommend on their site).
- alakin 14y agoVery strange, I use that too and never see any ads. Thanks for bringing this up - going to look into it.
- alexqgb 14y agoOh wait, I'm an idiot - of course this isn't your app that's showing the ads, because you don't have one. It's the QR app, which I downloaded just to try your service, and mistakenly thought of as yours. Sorry about that. Turns out that the app's "More" menu contains a upgrade option that will remove the ads for $0.99. Problem solved.
- alakin 14y agoNo biggie man. I must have paid for mine so long ago that I forgot they had ads!
- keithpeter 14y agoSuggestion: pop a note on your landing page about in-app ads in the QR app. If someone posting on HN can get crossed wires about where the ads come from, Joe Random Six Pack Marketer is definitely going to get mixed up. (I'll eventually have to change my BlackBerry won't I?)
- shadowflit 14y agoOut of curiosity, does the QR app you used load webpages within the app? Mine (RL Classic) asked me if I wanted to open the webpage and launched Safari.
- alexqgb 14y agoIt loads in the app, and there's a button that gives me the option to load in Safari if I want to.