Steve,
I'm just trying to keep everybody honest about this issue, OK?
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
I think this whole tapatalk decision from about 3 years ago was previously addressed elsewhere in the forum ...
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/si...martphone.html
August, 2010: HSLD explained that the plugin for the site would cost $3000. That's a reasonable reason to choose not to install, even though someone posted that the Tapatalk website implies it was free.
January, 2011, same thread: Request renewed, text from website copied in post to show that it's free to the Forum Owner. No answer.
February, 2011, same thread: Request renewed, denied, no reason given.
October, 2012, same thread: Request renewed, no response.
June, 2013, same thread: Request renewed, still free to the forum owner, no response.
July, 2013, same thread: Broken record: Request renewed, still free to the forum owner.
YOU, Steve, replied, "we have looked into tapatalk in the past and decided it was not the right solution for us." So, you knew all that.
So, let's clarify ...
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
... but just to clarify, we went with a custom-built mobile app rather than pay a third party ...
... is a ... let me be generous ... is a misrepresentation. It has NOTHING to do with paying a third party. It's FREE, as in NO cost, NO paying ANYbody ANYthing.
Instead, you pushed the APF Mobile App which is the subject of this complaint thread.
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
... ultimately we made the rational business decision that we would prefer to ... hopefully build a better product.
In that endeavor you have fallen short.
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
This all pre-dates our ownership of ForumRunner ...
But it does NOT pre-date the August, 2008 acquisition by Internet Brands of Airline Pilot Central.
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
Even if we went with tapatalk, by your own admission you'd probably be grumbling about that too so clearly there's no winning with you TonyC.
I doubt you care about winning with me, and that's not important, that's not the point. If you install Tapatalk, great -- I might use it. I used the APF Mobile App once -- uninstalled. I am happy with my Chrome browser on my Nexus 4, thankyouverymuch.
I was motivated to post because there were misrepresentations made about the "history" of this forum and Tapatalk, and I just want to set the record straight. It's so much easier to keep the stories straight when you just stick to the truth.
This is why Internet Brands will not install Tapatalk on any Internet Brands Forums -- Internet Brands owns Forum Runner, a competitor of Tapatalk.
Plain and simple.
Originally Posted by
Gilbola
... we still push forward ... in direct consultation with the moderators (i.e. pilots) and Admins (the pilot founders of APCF who are still actively engaged in running the community, fyi).
It's only because the pilot founders have become (for understandable reasons)
less actively engaged that they've been reduced to consultants, and we see more strange names with ADMINISTRATOR under their names telling us why we're wrong.
(BTW, did you ever get HuggyU2 an answer to his PM Inbox question?)
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