Its looking like the app store era is effectively over.
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Replying to @johnallsopp
looking at download statistics. http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-apps-per-month/ …
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Replying to @sintaxi
: that said, the "your boss wanting something in the app store" era still going strong
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Replying to @slightlylate @johnallsopp
I’d love to hear how anyone justifies it. The Math fails very quickly when you start to look at real numbers.
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Replying to @sintaxi
: many app efforts funded out of speculative (VC, marketing) budgets; not LOB, revenue generating. i.e., "funny money"
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: further, orgs learn on very long (sometimes darwinin) time-cycles. Failure causality hard to untangle w/o discipline.
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: ...and many orgs split their web/app service teams. Nobody looking at health of overall efforts until very late.
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Replying to @slightlylate @sintaxi
: lastly, once spun up, native app teams have a momentum. Hard to shut down/redirect; resist strongly.
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Replying to @slightlylate @johnallsopp
yeah, that probably has a lot to do with having notifications.
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: yep. Then the conversation then becomes a set of tiny arguments about each incremental web vs. native thing.
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Replying to @slightlylate @sintaxi
: ...even though the business case is frequently overwhelming. It's hard to turn off a running tap.
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Replying to @slightlylate @johnallsopp
yeah, I don't blame those who have existing revenue stream. I just encourage people to always start with the web.
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