I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by deergomoo on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:19PM (#31633511)

Apple’s big push into services has been slowly but surely chipping away at the generally pleasant experience of using their platforms. The price of entry was always high, but once you were through the door you were never really upsold.

Not so anymore. Numerous nags in settings to buy AppleCare or start a trial of some service or other. The App Store is particularly egregious: as well as search ads there are now occasional modal prompts to enable marketing notifications with my most hated dark pattern of all—only offering “yes” or “not now” as options.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by gopher_space on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:52PM (#31634277)

The entire point of Apple, in my mind, has been their focus on user experience. It's weird seeing them lose their way every now and then. I wonder what's going on internally because no sane designer would sign off on some of these ideas.

The App Store on my iphone is only useful for installing apps I've searched for externally. Browsing categories is buried as a search suggestion?

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