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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by malfist on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:58AM (#47166169)
100%?

I once published an app to help people track their budget. It didn't even request any permissions, not even internet. How is it bad?

I wrote an app for a university to let researchers track bat sightings in caves and upload it to a database for population tracking. How is it bad?

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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by everdrive on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:02AM (#47166221)
Do I need a smartphone to use it? If so, then it's bad.
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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by linhns on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:45AM (#47166811)
It's weird that many people don't rely not everything should be mobile-first.
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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by malfist on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:23PM (#47169928)
Let me know when researchers want to start lugging around laptops when they go splunking in caves to record bat populations and I'll tell them about the web portal.
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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by everdrive on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:52PM (#47184089)
It's well known that bat research didn't even exist prior to 2007. Steve Jobs famously took the stage and declared, "I have finally achieved bat research!"
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Re:You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play o... by malfist on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:22PM (#47169912)
I'm sorry, did you expect a smartphone app to not require a smartphone?

Should we get mad at books for requiring you to know how to read? Should we get mad at stores for requiring you to use currency to pay?

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