Re:Mobile apps must die
by drivingmenuts on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @01:30AM
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> too much trouble to organize & maintain
I disagree. That's a solved problem. The App Store and Android Market both notify when there are updates and it's very painless to apply them.
The real problem is discovery. Apple and Google both set the precedent for crapware while building up their markets and it hasn't gotten any better. What we need is access to curated collections outside the respective app stores. This won't happen until Apple unbinds their iDevices from the App Store and Android goes a bit further.
> apps magically appearing on your phone
There is no way that anyone can make that sound at all reasonable. Security & privacy demand that, at a minimum, the user be allowed to reject the installation of a native app.
The privacy-destroying aspects of what he describes are beyond terrifying.
I disagree. That's a solved problem. The App Store and Android Market both notify when there are updates and it's very painless to apply them.
The real problem is discovery. Apple and Google both set the precedent for crapware while building up their markets and it hasn't gotten any better. What we need is access to curated collections outside the respective app stores. This won't happen until Apple unbinds their iDevices from the App Store and Android goes a bit further.
> apps magically appearing on your phone
There is no way that anyone can make that sound at all reasonable. Security & privacy demand that, at a minimum, the user be allowed to reject the installation of a native app.
The privacy-destroying aspects of what he describes are beyond terrifying.