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by justincrane 5088 days ago
How is Wikipedia supposed to know you'd like to be redirected to some random app downloaded from an app store?

There actually is a way to redirect from the web to a random app (intents on Android) but that's not available on iOS. Lay the blame at Apple's feet not Wikipedia's.
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smackfu 5088 days ago
It is available on iOS, for instance Quora pages you open in Mobile Safari will have a link to open in the Quora app. But it has to be provided by the site working together with the app.

Details: http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-appl...

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SoftwareMaven 5088 days ago
It could be in a cookie Wikipedia looks at. You specify the name of the app you want to launch in the cookie, then the site redirects you to that app.
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