dwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoPatreon will sidestep Apple’s payment system - Last year, Apple executives told Patreon to give them 30% or they will ban the company from the Apple store. www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down14
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minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·4 days agoPatreon app is literally their website. What does it do that the website does not? Notifications? Offline images? All of these can be done in your mobile browser.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·edit-24 days agoNotifications, and no browser UI to get in the way. You can do a PWA, but that’s beyond the scope of the average user.
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days agoNo browser UI to get in the way? Is it really that difficult to manage?
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 days agoI’m not the one complaining, I know how to manage all of that. I’m talking about the average user.
minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·4 days agohttps://xkcd.com/3074/ No app needed. Tell me if it works on your phone.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThat comic says to do the opposite and to NOT implement browser notifications…
minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoYup, because they are annoying, not because they do not work. Pretty much every news site asks you to enable browser notifications.
minus-squarezipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoDon’t forget data gathering. And possibly but probably not; 2FA
Patreon app is literally their website. What does it do that the website does not? Notifications? Offline images? All of these can be done in your mobile browser.
Notifications, and no browser UI to get in the way. You can do a PWA, but that’s beyond the scope of the average user.
No browser UI to get in the way? Is it really that difficult to manage?
I’m not the one complaining, I know how to manage all of that.
I’m talking about the average user.
Fair point.
https://xkcd.com/3074/
No app needed. Tell me if it works on your phone.
That comic says to do the opposite and to NOT implement browser notifications…
Yup, because they are annoying, not because they do not work.
Pretty much every news site asks you to enable browser notifications.
Don’t forget data gathering.
And possibly but probably not; 2FA