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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by stephengillie on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:18PM (#10275462)
Choosing the mobile website over the app is one way of keeping the relationship from going any further. A website can't ask you for your contact list like an app can.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by voltagex_ on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:25PM (#10275497)
http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ - but I get your point.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by owencm on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:25PM (#10275751)
That feature was designed but never built, so his point still stands. In my ideal world sites can do that stuff, they just have to ask, and users can always say no.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by ianlevesque on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:42PM (#10275816)
So the way iOS apps already do this...
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by marknutter on Thursday September 24, 2015 @11:01PM (#10276161)
That's a feature, not a bug.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by marrs on Friday September 25, 2015 @08:54AM (#10277830)
eugh, I hate it when sites do that. I'd be really angry if I found out that a friend of mine had been sharing my contact details with strangers without my permission.
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