On 5/31/2012 8:41 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote:
On 5/31/2012 4:48 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
What is wrong with the analogy between this facility (requiring
permission to link to an app) and requiring permission to link to a
website?
Installing an app is not the same thing as visiting a website.
I have not yet seen a coherent description of how they are or should be
different. Technically they are exactly the same thing; when the store
"installs" an app, it is merely installing a URL link to where the app
is located. This is fundamentally different from the current android/iOS
stores, where the store actually delivers the app permanently to the
device. If the user perceives that they are getting their app from a
store when they actually are not (they are merely getting a *link* to an
app from the store!), there are going to be all sorts of disconnects
between perception and reality which could lead to unhappy users.
So I believe that we should be working to make it clear that installing
and linking an app are fundamentally the same thing, not trying to hide it.
--BDS
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