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i think i was born too late to relate to most millenials
for me, big computer is for either
A. Something that needs more power (gaming, CAD)
or
B. Something easier to do with a mouse and keyboard (long documents, fps games, video and photo editing, etc)
but i have no problem spending $3,000 on something through my phone screen. I bet whatever business im buying from has a mobile-first design for their website anyway
The way i see it, most people have 1 expensive/powerful device for thier work, and a secondary cheaper one of the rest. I have a custom desktop PC for my important work, and a relativly cheap phone for less important/mobile stuff. While my sister is all in on her phone for her day to day things, and a budget laptop on the side.
I have my home PC that is my REAL computer, I have a laptop as an away mission computer, and I have my phone as my portable mental unwellness device.
Same. Booking flights or doing anything otherwise intricate on a laptop with its touchpad and tiny monitor is crazy.
I don't understand how people do things like shopping on their phone. I mean if you're only buying one or two items, sure, but if you're doing grocery pickup at Walmart or something how do you even function on a screen that small? You can't do any kind of comparison without flipping back and forth between multiple tabs.
Mobile is fine for reading articles, instant messaging, etc., but there are a lot of things that are absolutely better on a laptop.
I have really tried to limit online shopping. I avoid Amazon like herpes and have for years...I'll use Lowe's website and/or app to locate things in the store. "Where in this 40 acre building can I find an 8 oz can of contact cement?" And performance issues aside it's okay for that.
Actually doing shopping on a phone though? Signal to noise ratio is too bad.
That's exactly how i feel, too. Some years ago i went back to school. I was about 10 years older than anyone else and was flabbergasted to see that people are actually shopping clothes/shoes on their phones.
Does Walmart work like IKEA? Cause over there I find it a lot easier to just scan the barcode and view similar items through the app, personally. I would hate to have to browse through it all on my laptop (or phone for that matter) just to shop in person, but quickly scanning the barcode to find "related items" or similar items etc, I found to be very useful
I hate when they offer a discount for using the mobile app to make the purchase. My local airline does that shit.
It's always annoying, but everything does this now. Kroger has tags that say $4.99, $3.99 with Kroger card, $2.99 with mobile coupon.
Assholes
Edit:For those who don't know, Kroger is a grocery store.
Mobile sites suck for comparing options and getting a “big picture” of what’s happening. The limited display size forces you to hold more in your head about what you’re doing. That sucks.
I will make it my life's purpose to pay for a business class fight on a smartwatch, no scratch that, a smart ring, i will report back with further progress.
I can just picture you spinning the ring to read 1 letter of the terms of service agreement at a time.
I feel this in my bones. Right to the core. Anything important ain't happening on a mobile for some reason.
The most millennial trait is posting screenshots of Tweets as memes. Bring your hate.
I don't even agree with that but world forces me, I only buy in my laptop just because the site don't fucking work on mobile, it don't accept my card, and when go to the laptop, with the same fucking card, it just work???
BTW: are people born in 2004 considered millennial?
BTW: are people born in 2004 considered millennial?
No, Millenials are those who grew up around the early years of the new Millenium. That is, those born roughly 1980 to 1995.
And my Xennial brain says "this is looks like a job for the desktop"
I was going on a trip, so I finally broke down and was going to setup a Uber account. Turns out that you can not setup an Uber account on the desktop. Only though the App and even if I have shopping apps on my phone, I don't enter CC info through it/
You also can't schedule a ride at an appointed time the day before, so when I arrived at my destination airport at 2am, I couldn't be sure I would have a ride from Uber. Yeah, maybe that's old fashioned, but those are none starters for me.
I have never used Uber or any ride sharing app, and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. When we travel we either rent a vehicle, use local public transit, or have friends .
It's a good backup of other services fail, or if you need a backup ride when busses are too spaced out or too indirect.
I try to avoid them except that my city's taxis charged me $120 for half of what would have been a $50 Uber ride (I left the cab early) so I don't trust them anymore.
Lol ride scheduling is a scam though. Last I saw they don't make any promises that you'll actually get a ride, they just automatically request it for you shortly before your scheduled time and you have to hope a driver is available.
Sure its one less thing to think about, but it's also no different from doing it manually. Same risks.
What's worse is it's also usually more expensive than just doing it at the moment
Regardless, I feel more conformable arranging a ride with hotel.
Absolutely. I should have clarified Uber's/Lyft's scheduling is the scam. At least a hotel would be willing to call a second taxi company if the first one flakes. Uber would never.
Uber sucks balls, I don't understand the popularity. My local taxi firms had a better app before Uber even arrived in my home town and I find that they're more reliable.
In Czechia they made a competitior app, very easy concept, all taxi driver can sign up, you request a trip from point a to b, you receive a bunch of bids from the drivers, you select one, pay through the app. So simple, and its not some vc funded asshollery sidestepping taxi regulations
This is true for the obvious reason that a real computer with a big screen is just better, but it's also true for another reason: lots of vendors have been caught engaging in shady market segmentation tactics where they overcharge people on phones and/or using "apps," relative to the price offered to people on desktop browsers. It tends to be even worse for iPhone users than for Android ones, by the way.
I think the real reason a desktop (or laptop) screen is superior is really the ease with which you can open multiple browser tabs (and to a lesser extent, multiple profiles/private browsing mode) to compare prices, as well as the easy with which you can view them side-by-side instead of having to switch between different fullscreen views.
I think large purchases should be done on a monitor because not cross comparing prices/terms/sellers/etc makes one a fool.
Tiny screens are a marketer's dream. The downsides are another 2 menus deep and the shitty terms are 2 screens ago, just look at that pretty bold number at the top and the pretty bold BUY NOW button at the bottom. Whee!
If something costs more than $500, I'm doing it with 4 browser windows on 2 screens with competing offers, seller reviews, product/experience reviews, etc, confirming I'm getting screwed the least possible for what I want or need before I make the purchase, and often confirming whether or not the large purchase is warranted at all.
Gen Zs "I do large purchases on my phone," and to be clear I like Gen Z more than my own millennial generation on most issues, is just a minor derivation on a very, very, very old flex, perhaps the oldest flex of all: I don't care what it costs, I'll just buy it.
Really?
Damn I'm weird. I make big purchases on my phone to make it feel like a small purchase.
Fuck that's not healthy is it
The most expensive stuff I've ever ordered was on my phone. I did so by calling this vendor who knew me well.
Other than things like that it's mostly fast-food.
You actually talked over your phone?
Does it have one of those spinny dials too?
Dials? No, back then you had to speak to an operator to make a call.