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How quickly can you delete 95 of those bookmarks? How long would it take you to delete 25 apps?

dredmorbius 13y ago
Better: even my Android browser lets me sort the bookmarks by frequency of use. Hell, I don't think my desktop browsers even do that.
- rockdoe 13y ago
  Firefox absolutely does.
espadrine 13y ago
Also, how fast can you browse through and find the bookmark you need? There's a lot of useful data attached to each one of them, including a tree structure. If you lose a bookmark (or maybe you're on a different device), how easy is it to get it back? You can even choose from a wealth of great search engines! Maybe search engines will come for "native" apps. Maybe that's what OP hinted at at the end. Even then, those apps are not cross-platform.
- eliasmacpherson 13y ago
  Faster than scrolling through pages of apps. There are search engines for native apps already, the app stores, perhaps they should be updated to "search on device" and give the subset of results that are installed on the device already.
CmonDev 13y ago
That is not a fundamental issue of the apps. It's a flaw of app management. The core of my analogy remains unchallenged. Besides, there is an app for that: http://lifehacker.com/5645850/apps-uninstall-bulk-removes-android-applications http://lifehacker.com/5645850/apps-uninstall-bulk-removes-an...
- eliasmacpherson 13y ago
  Well if that's the extent of your analogy it's completely flawed. In your analogy someone has misused the bookmark feature to save too many. In my response - I point out it's a pain to remove apps. In future, sure maybe somebody will make app managers on par with web browser bookmarking features. Bookmarking a site is not a prerequisite for using a website, whereas installing an app is. To point to yet another crummy app that performs extremely basic functionality that should probably be part of the os, is not really a sterling defense of the app model.
taude 13y ago
Better yet, how long does it take to update those 95 bookmarks?

Better: even my Android browser lets me sort the bookmarks by frequency of use. Hell, I don't think my desktop browsers even do that.

rockdoe 13y ago
Firefox absolutely does.

espadrine 13y ago

Also, how fast can you browse through and find the bookmark you need? There's a lot of useful data attached to each one of them, including a tree structure. If you lose a bookmark (or maybe you're on a different device), how easy is it to get it back? You can even choose from a wealth of great search engines! Maybe search engines will come for "native" apps. Maybe that's what OP hinted at at the end. Even then, those apps are not cross-platform.

eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Faster than scrolling through pages of apps. There are search engines for native apps already, the app stores, perhaps they should be updated to "search on device" and give the subset of results that are installed on the device already.

CmonDev 13y ago

That is not a fundamental issue of the apps. It's a flaw of app management. The core of my analogy remains unchallenged. Besides, there is an app for that: http://lifehacker.com/5645850/apps-uninstall-bulk-removes-android-applications http://lifehacker.com/5645850/apps-uninstall-bulk-removes-an...

eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Well if that's the extent of your analogy it's completely flawed. In your analogy someone has misused the bookmark feature to save too many. In my response - I point out it's a pain to remove apps. In future, sure maybe somebody will make app managers on par with web browser bookmarking features. Bookmarking a site is not a prerequisite for using a website, whereas installing an app is. To point to yet another crummy app that performs extremely basic functionality that should probably be part of the os, is not really a sterling defense of the app model.

taude 13y ago

Better yet, how long does it take to update those 95 bookmarks?