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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ssalazar on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:57PM (#24194167)
Web development absolutely epitomizes this same technology churn. Regardless if one personally sticks to older standards but its impossible to ignore the large section of commercial web applications that are just as much on the tech churn treadmill.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by TedDoesntTalk on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:11PM (#24194581)
> just as much on the tech churn treadmill.

Really? I doubt you could run an app written for Android in 2010 (2.2 Froyo) today. But a website written in 2010 using HTML, Javascript, and CSS and no plugins will almost always work.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ptx on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:48AM (#24196198)
I use a shopping list app[1] that was last updated in January 2011 (so pretty close to 2010) and still works fine. The UI is huge and blurry, but it works.

[1] https://f-droid.org/app/caldwell.ben.trolly

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by hajimemash on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:41AM (#24200015)
Aintcha kinda makin' the opposition's point? That usage case is at a bare-minimum level of dead-simple and minimal-time-in-app usage. Any app with a more involved workflow would effectively be considered obsolete due to being so inferior.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ptx on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:40PM (#24200865)
I don't know, I wasn't necessarily making a point, just giving a counter-example. And this simple app is hardly inferior - I use it because I like it.
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