Advertisement vs. Reality – The Reddit App (spyware)

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[–]AntiLowEffortHuman 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I hate the app culture these days. No, I don't need an app for every single website I visit. Because I already have an "app" for that, it's called the browser in my phone or my computer. And by the way, it's called an "application" or better yet, a computer program. I don't like the word app, because it feels like giving undue importance to the thing. Calling it a computer program is better because it reminds you that it is nothing but a set of instructions, and that the computer can be programmed to work as you want and not as Global Corporation ® wants to.

[–]Handroid7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But websites are getting more and more sophisticated.

Apps can obviously have far more capabilities due to access to device features (for the good or bad), but now, many things, even games work entirely reliably in the browser, thanks to HTML5.

[–]AntiLowEffortHuman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not as hard to make a decent website with most required features for any purpose as they make out to be; it's just that they want to push their mobile app so they make the website as bloated as possible.

Never forget that before the smartphone explosion, everything worked on simple websites because a hell lot of people on desktops had DSL or cable internet or dial up and the cool kids with mobile phones had 2g or 3g at best. Good websites were made to be light and minimalistic. Now with the rise in internet speed and processing power, those priorities took a backseat.