I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]

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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