Glorified Websites

This but unironically

First, there was web browsers which you could use to access most everything on the net. Then came apps. Then people started getting sick of having too many apps and started wanting all-in-one apps

on the other hand, stop putting apps in webpages

Apps were not supposed to be given a constrained execution environment that is years behind what the hardware can do
Years of internet and no real world use-case for using anything other than Lotus 123
Wanted to do something else for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "Games"
"Yes please let my hardware be useless without internet access" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

Bold of you to assume that the websites wrapped up as apps are in any way useful if you lose internet access.
- Apps wrapped up as apps are useful without internet access.
Service workers are supported by every web browser and enable websites to work offline. They can even do periodic background pushes/refreshes.
My dream is that one day PWAs replace 90% of apps in existence today.
- Love running apps in a worse operating system running on top of my operating system

The browser is a tool designed to give the user control over how pages are rendered. Capitalists hate that.

Apps" are bazinga shit and any economic or social pressure pushed on me to use them pisses me off.
This makes me sad because phone apps should just be touch-friendly programs that you use on your phone, which should be as useful as any program you install on a PC.

Mfw when when app maker makes app but app is website in a browser window and somehow worse

I used to work on the notification system of a big crypto exchange before I got fired for being a shit employee lmao

Other that a few intensive purposes like Uber, TikTok, Google Maps type apps, companies only create apps and heavily push you to download them so they can shove push notifications to your phone. It's basically impossible to do 99% of that using a website (fine grained controls of what notifications, collecting analytics, delivery speed, proper scheduling, etc.) cause then you'd have to go through the browser's notification system

Yeah. I bought a TV a few months back using a store’s credit card. 12 months interest free. Sweet.
Every month I visit the site and pay that month’s amount. Few weeks back I get an email to say that I can only pay the bill via their fucking app from now on. They literally do not offer a way to pay off their card that doesn’t involve installing their app.
It’s fucking mad. I genuinely can’t work it out. The app doesn’t have ads, I don’t let it push notifications, nothing like that. It’s on iOS, so fuck knows what it can see of my shit.

Using the cemetery app to find haunted headstones sounds like something out of a game.

Those Trump staffers weren't taking pictures, they were trying to find the right gravesite using the MyArlington app.

I'm not installng shit. App only features means I'm never supporting your company.

In the same vein, video ads on a gas pump puts a store on my blacklist

In the same vein, video ads on a gas pump puts a store on my blacklist
I mash buttons until it mutes and then write in "MUTE THIS SHIT" next to it
- they disabled the ability to mute at a major chain near me. I stopped driving (that wasn't the only reason but it was driving me insane)

These kind of campaigns/posts whatever are cute and admirable like "buy physical media" or wanting buttons in your car. But they show a fundamental lack of understanding how weighted everything is towards data now.

Nothing can be permitted to stop the surveillience and dark patterns as we go deeper into monopoly capitialism. It's the last frontier.

I used to make a living making apps and while there are legitimate use cases for running software applications on handheld computers there are a hundred times more apps than there are good use cases.

I have 2 apps on the Play Store. One is something I actually mostly just made for my wife that helps her figure out how well balanced her DnD dice are. It's just called Dice Weight Calculator. But when you search for it, a ton of virtual dice roll apps come up. There are dozens, if not hundreds of them.

My old internet provider had a function on their website that would do something to fix your Internet connection from their end. I lost internet one day and went to use it, but they replaced the mobile version of their website with a page telling me to download the app. Fine, I'll download the app, which is clearly just a wrapper for the website. But for some reason you can't access that function through the app.

One of the best days of the last two years was when att fiber rolled into my neighborhood and I got to cancel Xfinity. All telecoms are evil but there's a special place in hell for Comcast.
- its truly horrible.
  You need their app to do port forwarding now, and instead of not paying modem rental fees, there's actually a fee for bringing your own modem now.

I agree so fucking much jesus christ. I would ban all apps as dictator

I have a folder of these things and I hate using them but in a lot of cases you’re over paying if you don’t use their apps or missing out on free shit and honestly every dollar counts in my situation lol

- Yeah I shouldn’t have said free, i was just thinking about how they frame the rewards at the time and really meant reduced cost but yeah that’s exactly what it is. they do have people over a barrel and definitely should be illegal

Isn't the rest of the meme advocating in favor of snapchat.com? The closing line should be something more like "Hello I would like to download the hexbear app"

i would advertise on the hexbear app
- The only ads allowed on the bear app would be for beans and pig feed
yeah, not sure why it's like that