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Also VLC player. The thing is all those things will eventually migrate to the web. Right now the web has so much potential and those pieces of software have a

by 1971genocide 11y ago

Also VLC player. The thing is all those things will eventually migrate to the web. Right now the web has so much potential and those pieces of software have a small market and that market is pretty saturated. Once we do everything we can do with the web then we will move into domains that have incumbents I would say Facebook is much more useful to society then Audio Production.

millstone 11y ago
The web is a cesspool. Its monetization is so twisted and unnatural, with individual users worth next to nothing. Companies engage in all sorts of dark patterns, tracking and other scummy bullshit to try to squeeze out an extra tenth of a penny per user. Hell, click on the link to this article and Amazon, LinkedIn, Google, and a dozen others all get to know what you just read! I don't share the excitement about bringing this bullshit to apps. Maybe the web will improve: as websites become more sophisticated, customers will increase their expectations and start demanding better treatment. But this would require reversing the current trend.
- Bahamut 11y ago
  Native apps can be even worse - they control all behavior to a more powerful degree. The bloat and battery & data drainage is why I install as few mobile apps as possible.
  - tdkl 11y ago
    You didn't state on which mobile OS you have this experience ?
    - Bahamut 11y ago
      Android and iOS
- agumonkey 11y ago
  It seems like a market pattern. When the market size become so big, value gets down to nothing, then yes businesses act this way.
chillingeffect 11y ago
> I would say Facebook is much more useful to society then Audio Production. That's a bizarre value judgment to make, but social apps have different technical needs from multimedia apps: Bandwidth to the cloud will never beat bandwidth to the local disk. And RAM.

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Also VLC player. The thing is all those things will eventually migrate to the web. Right now the web has so much potential and those pieces of software have a

by 1971genocide 11y ago

millstone 11y ago
The web is a cesspool. Its monetization is so twisted and unnatural, with individual users worth next to nothing. Companies engage in all sorts of dark patterns, tracking and other scummy bullshit to try to squeeze out an extra tenth of a penny per user. Hell, click on the link to this article and Amazon, LinkedIn, Google, and a dozen others all get to know what you just read! I don't share the excitement about bringing this bullshit to apps. Maybe the web will improve: as websites become more sophisticated, customers will increase their expectations and start demanding better treatment. But this would require reversing the current trend.
- Bahamut 11y ago
  Native apps can be even worse - they control all behavior to a more powerful degree. The bloat and battery & data drainage is why I install as few mobile apps as possible.
  - tdkl 11y ago
    You didn't state on which mobile OS you have this experience ?
    - Bahamut 11y ago
      Android and iOS
- agumonkey 11y ago
  It seems like a market pattern. When the market size become so big, value gets down to nothing, then yes businesses act this way.
chillingeffect 11y ago
> I would say Facebook is much more useful to society then Audio Production. That's a bizarre value judgment to make, but social apps have different technical needs from multimedia apps: Bandwidth to the cloud will never beat bandwidth to the local disk. And RAM.