Isn’t that the promise of App Clips? iOS and Android both allow you to run a mini app temporarily for shopping and not cluttering your system.
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The most ironic part...
.... an ad for an app for the article....
And the app is just a glorified website (Electron app).
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Nah
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Literally me
This is partly corporate greed and partly a failure of the Web. A website should be all you need. You shouldn't need a separate app for every little thing.
If all I'm doing is looking at your catalog, it should work in a mobile browser. That way if I - a Tarheel - find myself in the midwest, I can go "does Menards have 1/4-20 hanger bolts?"
I'll install an app if it runs mainly on my phone, like a media player or a calculator or maybe even a file viewer. Mobile games...that ship has sunk, frankly.
It's not a failure of the web, it's a failure of corporations to accept their place as just a tab in my browser. It's also easier to track users, exploit vulnerabilities, etc. from within a mobile app.
Also, push notifications. Most things could be done from a browser, but corpos have to have their push notifications.
It doesn't matter if you're the guy who turns every notification off and manages all those... 9/10 people won't.
What they mean is iPhones have pitiful storage levels for the huge amount of money they cost
This piece has no real point. No hidden info, no resolution, no exposé, no call-to-arms really.
It's just "there are way too many apps", which we already knew.
What a weak article.
It’s behind a paywall for me. Good to hear I don’t have to bother with an archive link
Yeah. The Atlantic kinda sucks.
It used to be a sort of second-rate New Yorker, except now The New Yorker is a second-rate New Yorker.
Harper's is still decent though. It's pretty much how it's been for years.
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