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If you're making an app, you ought to be making an entire portal to your product. It's bad design to want users to use two separate, different-in-intent applica

• jsonscripter 17y ago
  I think that's just a different mentality. You're both right. The grandparent is thinking "Every application should do one thing really really well, and everyone should have a bunch of applications". You're thinking "Every application should be full featured and do everything relating to a specific goal. You only need a single application for every task you do."
  • jasongullickson 17y ago
    Here here! If this was the Facebook iPhone app, then by all means everything you can do in Facebook should be in there, but given how Posterous goes the opposite direction (in regard to complexity), a "do everything" app would be out of character, don't you think?
  • jasongullickson 17y ago
    Here here! If this was the Facebook iPhone app, then by all means everything you can do in Facebook should be in there, but given how Posterous goes the opposite direction (in regard to complexity), a "do everything" app would be out of character, don't you think?
    • unalone 17y ago
      But their competitor, Tumblr (I think that's their closest competitor), offers a very simple way to post audio, video, links, text, photos, and chats from their iPhone interface. Looking at the picture of Posterous's app, furthermore, I don't think it would be tough for them to add more functionality without sacrificing the integrity of their app design.