{"id":12135,"date":"2015-08-31T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:00:47","slug":"details-in-the-ios-app-store-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/details-in-the-ios-app-store-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Details in the iOS App Store App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/08\/app-store-bitching\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/08\/app-store-bitching\/\"><p>I understand what&rsquo;s going on during those 5&#8211;10 seconds. The badge on the app&rsquo;s icon might have been out of date because it isn&rsquo;t updated continuously, so now the app is communicating with Apple to get the correct number of updates that are available. What I don&rsquo;t understand is why they can&rsquo;t just use the same number that was showing on the icon as a placeholder until the new information has been retrieved. It&rsquo;s disconcerting to launch the App Store because I see that two updates are waiting, only to see&mdash;initially, at least&mdash;that there are no updates waiting. Apple&rsquo;s apps should be more polished than that.<\/p><p>More annoying is what happens when I tap the Search button. I get a lot of whitespace, a list of suggestions I have absolutely no interest in, and a search field at the top of the screen <em>that I have to tap on before I can start typing<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: I understand what&rsquo;s going on during those 5&#8211;10 seconds. The badge on the app&rsquo;s icon might have been out of date because it isn&rsquo;t updated continuously, so now the app is communicating with Apple to get the correct number of updates that are available. What I don&rsquo;t understand is why they can&rsquo;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,31,904,26],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12136,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}