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Apps and app stores
When a system needs an app, what changes for it to work offline, and the App Store and Google Play rules: account, commission and distribution.
Who owns the App Store account: you or the company building your app
Owning the app is three things decided in three different places: the code, in the contract; the store listing, in the developer account; and the ability to ship the next version, in the signing certificates — and whoever controls the account controls the product. What matters isn't which account the app is born in, but which account it ends up in, whether yours started being opened on day one, and whether the migration is a planned step in the contract. We've run that full cycle: the transfer preserves ratings and your installed base, and it breaks specific things that need to be mapped beforehand.
12 min read
12 min read
What changes in a system when the app has to work with no signal
Offline-first is not an app feature: it is a decision that changes the database, the server and the product scope — above all, what does not go onto the device. And an app that promises offline and freezes is worse than an honestly online one: the difference between the two lives in details that almost never show up in a proposal.
16 min read
16 min read