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by malfist 110 days ago
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I once published an app to help people track their budget. It didn't even request any permissions, not even internet. How is it bad?

I wrote an app for a university to let researchers track bat sightings in caves and upload it to a database for population tracking. How is it bad?

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Do I need a smartphone to use it? If so, then it's bad.
I'm sorry, did you expect a smartphone app to not require a smartphone?

Should we get mad at books for requiring you to know how to read? Should we get mad at stores for requiring you to use currency to pay?

It's weird that many people don't rely not everything should be mobile-first.
Let me know when researchers want to start lugging around laptops when they go splunking in caves to record bat populations and I'll tell them about the web portal.
It's well known that bat research didn't even exist prior to 2007. Steve Jobs famously took the stage and declared, "I have finally achieved bat research!"