Would you like to see a Neowin iPhone app?

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  1. 1. Would you like to see a Neowin iPhone app?

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      44
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      41
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Grand Master

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Websites do not need apps. All you need to do is to pin the site to your homescreen. App-ifying eveything is a step backwards.

Exactly, cause a website can do EVERYTHING an app can. No compromise.

HTML > C

All hail HTML and suspended browsers!

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Exactly, cause a website can do EVERYTHING an app can. No compromise.

HTML > C

All hail HTML and suspended browsers!

Glassed Silver:mac

It would be an app for a website. There is absolutely no need for a full fledged app. It would serve no purpose. Everything can be properly displayed by coding once for the web instead of several times using the various languages and dev tools for phones. If you want a more native experience there's always the option of serving up diferent CSS files depending on what smartphone browser your using.

Grand Master

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It's obvious Neowin evolved into more than just being about Windows.

Not just that.

I think that you need a willing dev first... When you got an iOS dev that wants to do it, but apparently (so far) no Windows Phone dev offers his contribution, then it'd be silly to say: well, those Neowin users on iOS (incredible share of users versus WP) need to artificially wait.

I'm still totally in for an app.

There are several advantages to me personally - of cause everyone is different with different focuses.

What matters to me, might not matter to everyone.

There are also some nastinesses in the mobile site on Neowin forums, that are quite a bummer...

Just two for example:

On iOS no picture upload

No poll creation (as some of you know, I'm a big poll creator at times...)

Also, I'm often out and about for a couple of hours with no steering wheel in my hands, but sitting on a train. (Or lying in my bed and too lazy to sit in the comparatively uncomfy chair at my Mac)

Of cause lots of my contributions come from iOS as you can easily notice, so to me personally an improvement in the mobile experience is more than what seems for many to be only a quick check on Neowin...

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Grand Master

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I'd like to see tapatalk compatiblity.

Not possible, not easily at least, as Neowin uses a lot of in-house code that enhances this board.

We're quite off the standard IPB code which breaks compatibility with Tapatalk.

That's essentially why we haven't seen support for it so far.

If we create our own APIs and standards, we need to make sure the app has the understanding of them, hence keeping development to Neowin.

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