the guy is Erdogan's puppet and has to say things to undermine Saudi Arabia soooo im guessing since he is 'head of energy' he had to improvise a little using energy terms.
the local pizza shop does not belong to the richest guy in the world. the same richest guy who squeezes every drop of tax deductions and other inventives from the government to fun his business with my tax money.
I looked into plaid+stripe solution for our ACH payments need and after playing around with it a little I just didn't feel like I can put that in front of my clients and tell them 'Yeah put in your bank login and password on our website to make the payment, we promise it's secure'. Their solution didnt sell with me and I went for Stripe ACH where they make microdeposit and customer has to verify the amounts. Even PaySimple's eCheck solution sounds more reasonable to put in front of clients than to demand their bank login and password. IMHO
-having grown up (and going to first 6 grades of school) in a small village with very tight community.
-going thru 5 years of boarding school with very strong alumni traditions (kind of sect actually)
-6 years of going to college and living on campus of a large University
-living in a foreign country with very tight immigrant community of 'my country people' for the past 8 years
I can say that yes, unfortunately and surprisingly, friendships and relationships are born out of and maintained mostly thanks to proximity and necessity.
I think people actually prefer using decent mobile web apps over native apps and app vendors are actually actively fighting it by putting annoying 'get the app' link overlaying content on mobile web. they are trying to push people as much as as they can to force them to download the damn native app.
you don't see any app publisher putting a link to mobile web app over the content inside the native app prompting people to use mobile web app over native app.
For most of the content websites I use I don't feel the need for the app (twitter, reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) but they are making the mobile web experience horrible by putting that content overlaying link on every damn page.
The end user really doesn't care, they care about the following things:
o can I find what I want
o can I find it easily
o can I find it fast
o can I view what I've found properly
o nothing gets in the way of getting what they want.
slow load time, dodgy networking, waiting for app to load from notification, losing your place, inconsistent or foreign UI, all make the user scream in annoyance.
"TRY OUR APP" fits stops you from viewing what you want.
Linked in on mobile is shite, you have to use the app. The emails don't redirect to the app, which is fucking stupid
Twitter's desktop site is rubbish, the mobile version is slighty less annoying, you have to use the app.
> Or, the mobile app experience is better, and the overlay link is a convenience
For whom is it better? Me, the customer, or you, the vendor? I buy furniture from Wayfair's website, and browse on the site quite often. On the mobile site, I'm able to view products, add/remove them from a wishlist, and make a purchase. All from a browser with ad and tracking blockers enabled.
Wayfair still puts a "Download the app!" popup on the site, even though it can see from my repeated visits and purchases that I primarily use the mobile site. I imagine it's because on an app, notifications are opt-out and tracking is continuous.
For me the customer. The sites I use most often have better apps than websites.
As for your imagination about tracking, it’s both false and paranoid. Mobile notifications are opt-in, and tracking is limited to behavior within the app, unlike the web where you are tracked across sites wherever you go.
The overlay link for reddit takes up 1/3 the screen, and the link to hide it is in 9pt font at the edge while clicking anywhere else opens the App store.
its definitely the opposite of convenience. if i need the app i know where to find it.
its especially annoying when the link keeps reappearing after i dismissed it once already.
Uber and Lyft definitely put more shitty drivers out on the road constantly cruising looking to pickup or drop off their riders in most not suitable places with 0 regards to traffic, especially in NYC and suburbs. Uber and Lyft pays so little that most of their drivers are definitely not qualified to drive professionally but are doing it because they can't get any other job.
I forgot to mention that these drivers work for multiple ride-sharing companies (at least 2 but sometimes up to 4 in NYC) and have multiple smartphones docked to their dashboard constantly distracting them.
So is it the fault of Uber and Lift that the gig economy has become a thing?
I have a friend who fled Assad's genocide in Syria, has an accounting degree, and is currently looking for a job. Guess what he's doing in the meantime...
oh he fled Assad, that makes it okay for him to offer professional driver services in a country where he just arrived with 0 assessment of his driving skills. and in the meantime if he ends up causing an accident or two by putting everyone's life in danger its okay because, remember, he fled Assad.
Because he could have had a real job right now in Syria. I'm guessing most people with accounting degrees would rather work as accountants than Uber drivers.
