Like always, a story has 2 sides. Do read the response on https://www.pipdig.co/blog/sad-times/ carefully too and draw your own conclusions. Having a bit of technical knowledge and understanding what everybody is actually talking about can help with your perspective, else it's hard to come to any well informed conclusion.
That explains a lot, I was redirecting to the website from a "Subscribe" link in the app. Maybe if I just called the link "Sign up" it would've been a different story. Anyway, I like having the subscription option in the app, it makes it much easier for the user to sign up, without the need to go to the website and fill in the forms.
“3.1.1 In-App Purchase: If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase. Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality…”
My app was previously rejected because I had to built in In-App purchasing.
I noticed already for a longer time how Facebook Inc. is restricting more and more what you can do with data on their websites, sharing stuff like video's and pictures outside of their domain is nearly impossible, and now you can't even select comments anymore. I suggest Facebook takes notice of the story how PayPal only started to become successful when they made it is easy for their clients to get money out of PayPal. In the early days it wasn't easy to get your money out of PayPal, PayPal thought it would be good for their financial numbers to try to keep user's money on the PayPal's bank account. But users stopped using it, because you couldn't get your money out easily. Only when PayPal decided to make it easy to get your money out, users started to come back. And guess what, users didn't take out their money en masse, it was enough to know you could get it out easily anytime you wanted to. I feel the same is with how Facebook Inc treats users data. Using Facebook's websites is like being in a prison, you can't get data out of it, it's annoying and I noticed I just stop using it more and more.
Thanks for your message and no worries, I'm not trying to get rich off of it. The website is just there to make it easy for people to message themselves, without the hassle of creating a group and annoy other people with it.
PS: messaging yourself from the phonebook, like you mention, doesn't seem to be possible on iOS..
I have a little suspicion that you didn't try it. :-)
Messageyourself is not a separate app, the website only activates a WhatsApp chat with yourself. I will make that clear on the website shortly.
WhatsApp also doesn't need an internet connection to send yourself messages btw.
What this method also allows it to forward messages from other chats to yourself as notes, instead of having to copy paste and switch between apps. Just a little example of how this could be a little bit more convenient for some people. There are probably other uses I didn't think of besides using it as a "notes" app.
Thanks! And I'm a big fan of Solomun, I saw him DJ'ing live once and he will definitely be in a playlist for when we need to slow down hacking a bit because of a rate limiting firewall. ;-)
After some research I created this playlist to help hackers code faster. "Software eats the world", so I hope this playlist will help the world move forward faster. Together we can do it! Hack the planet!