On 06/07/2012 06:16 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Jun 7, 2012 5:36 PM, "Anant Narayanan" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> What is the purpose of this type of app? I.e. why would we want to
>> expose an app which has been acquired but not installed anywhere?
>
>
> To allow the user to (re)-install this app on their current device.
Also, it may have been installed on some other device, just not this one.
In what scenario for we need this?
The only related scenario I can think of is that a store would want to
know which apps a user has purchased, bur not currently installed. But
in this situation the store needs to keep track of which apps the user
has paid for anyway. It couldn't trust information from the browser
about which apps the user has or has not paid for.
The particular scenario we are handling right now is providing the
ability for a user to natively install an app that they have previously
acquired via the dashboard (on a tab named "apps not on this device" for
instance, like the apple store interface with a similar name).
This is a slightly better user experience as it allows the user to
natively install any previously acquired app without having to go to
each individual store.
-Anant
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