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by joeblau 4438 days ago
Congrats to IFTTT and Jordan Beck for shipping this product. I'm seeing more and more apps on iOS which are ported to Android only to be met by an incumbent app that is on par or superior to the iOS offering. I love IFTTT but the iOS restrictions make it difficult to enable the types of recipes I really want to create.
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sirkneeland 4438 days ago
Let us all remember that the blame for those iOS IFTTT limitations resides entirely with Apple. IFTTT have done the best they can (and it's still pretty great).

The tradeoff one makes when submitting to iOS is one that should be more publicized than it currently is.

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bluetidepro 4438 days ago
I think that's more of the fault of iOS, not IFTTT though right? I mean iOS only gives an app access to so much, where as Android apps can get all those access from the get go. I'm not 100% sure how permissions work for iOS, but I have a feeling it's more locked down that you would have to be a partner with Apple to get the type of permissions they allow on Android devices by default.
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joeblau 4438 days ago
Yeah I agree with you. iOS is pretty locked down compared to Android and I'm not sure if even a partnership would help. Unless your a company the size of Google, Apple will probably just swallow you whole.
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