![]() It’s valuable, but it’s not that valuable to me. If you decide to stop supporting mobile Web browsers, I will just use your product less. Even if I didn’t dislike native apps in general, your value propositions were weak. There is nothing you can do to make me want to install your iOS app. For the third time within 15 seconds, I tapped UI to reject an unwelcome distraction. Speed isn’t a problem I’ve ever had on LinkedIn, but at least the value statement is better than “works better”. It told me “LinkedIn is faster” in its iOS app. However, after 2 more seconds, a sticky banner appeared on the bottom of the screen. I then proceeded to finally enjoy the newsfeed that I came to the app for. (Worth noting that the banner is an imitation of iOS’s “smart app banners”-and the app has a 3.5-not 5-star rating as claimed!) Having not changed my mind in the last 2 seconds, I tapped the ‘x’ to dismiss the banner. However, a banner to install LinkedIn’s iOS app was above the app header UI. The LinkedIn experience I was expecting was then revealed. I don’t trust random modals on the Internet, so I tapped “Not now”. The proclamation was not accompanied by evidence of how the iOS app works better. It proclaimed that LinkedIn “works better” in its iPhone app. This was my experience using LinkedIn’s mobile Web app today: But unlike Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn seems to dislike how great its mobile Web app is. I access them via a Web browser on my iPhone.įacebook’s and Twitter’s mobile Web apps are fantastic. I use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn multiple times a day primarily on my iPhone, but I don’t use their iOS apps. Apps take up much storage space that Apple still overcharges for. Apps run in the background, wasting precious electrons from my battery and tracking data I don’t want to share. I admit that I am in the minority of iPhone users. Sometime in the last four years, LinkedIn became a place people shared interesting content and LinkedIn curated the most interesting newsfeed of all the social networks that I give my attention. Since starting and finishing my most recent job search, something unexpected happened: I kept using LinkedIn.
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