Re:An iOS app update that annoys me
by 8fingerlouie on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:23AM
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> > I'm genuinely sorry, but I'm not paying a subscription for an app that doesn't do a lot of back-end work (that's valuable to me)
> What does count as "a lot of back-end work" that's valuable to you?
Perhaps functionality that's not easily recreated using built in tools like shortcuts ?
In the case of the app in question, a simple shortcut in the shortcuts app or in i.e. Pythonista that adds a record to a spreadsheet, or even directly to a .csv file, would take <1 hour to write.
Another example is apps that provide some kind of backend. Of course keeping infrastructure running is not free. For the app in question it's not providing that.
> What does count as "a lot of back-end work" that's valuable to you?
Perhaps functionality that's not easily recreated using built in tools like shortcuts ?
In the case of the app in question, a simple shortcut in the shortcuts app or in i.e. Pythonista that adds a record to a spreadsheet, or even directly to a .csv file, would take <1 hour to write.
Another example is apps that provide some kind of backend. Of course keeping infrastructure running is not free. For the app in question it's not providing that.