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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by onion2k on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:46AM (#22290055)
Big brands and startups are basically required to have an app in the App Store if they want to succeed.

I don't think that will continue to be the case for much longer. It's mirroring the web to an extent - for a long time every business needed to have a website, and now more and more don't bother with anything more than a holding page that directs users to a few social media accounts. Brand apps are likely to go the same way, especially as Apple are doubling down on rejecting apps that don't provide useful functionality now.

Having an app for your brand is worthwhile if you have something to say and something for users to do. If you don't it's painfully obvious that the whole effort was a waste of time.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by zepto on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:19PM (#22291697)
What brand can you name that wouldn’t have something useful you could do with an app?
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by kick on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:43PM (#22292473)
The Hershey Company.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by zepto on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:21PM (#22292839)
https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/products/hersheys-milk-chocol...
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by kick on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:30PM (#22292936)
What's the purpose of linking this? It's chocolate...with an emoji stamped on it. There's no app.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by zepto on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:47AM (#22298857)
No but it’s obvious there could be.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by kick on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:02AM (#22298969)
Nothing valuable, and especially nothing that shouldn't be done with a website.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by zepto on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:37PM (#22303160)
Just because you don’t personally value something doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. Anyway, it’s clear that the issue here is that you simply want apps to go away. Not that they are.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by ryanwaggoner on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:43AM (#22299863)
People have been saying this for a decade.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to nat... by hstreet on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:09PM (#22305370)
I can promise that they'll be saying this a decade from now too, without much changing.
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