I shared few posts to friends, none read that because of downloading barrier

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As an app company - they probably focus on downloads the most (given there’s no subscription/revenue) 
 So makes sense why they would do this, without user flow being the smoothest

For instance on Grapevine, if I share a post link to someone, and they open the link, they are taken to play store rather than a webpage with the post. They

For instance on Grapevine, if I share a post link to someone, and they open the link, they are taken to play store rather than a webpage with the post. They could instead show a banner to download the app on the webpage to download the app like how quora and reddit do.

I hate platforms that requires downloading app to consume content