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Most apps aren't worth downloading. Once you get pass the initial excitement of owning your first smartphone, downloading an app that's just a wrapper for a web
by wnevets 10y ago
Most apps aren't worth downloading. Once you get pass the initial excitement of owning your first smartphone, downloading an app that's just a wrapper for a website isn't worth the time.
- MyNameIsFred 10y agoThat's just it: apps that are just wrappers for a website are never worth the time, yet they are so very common just to say "we have an app!" Actual apps are great, though.
- twblalock 10y agoI think the app extensions are an attempt to drive app usage. For example, in iOS 10, you can easily get data from various apps to send in a message to someone. Google Now cards are increasingly coming from third-party apps. You can't do those things with the mobile web.
- wnevets 10y agoUnless you don't consider games as Actual apps, I gonna have to disagree with you. Most mobile games are also not worth downloading.
- dumbfounder 10y agoUsing your thumb print for a password on bank apps is like aaahhhhhhhh thank god why didn't this happen earlier. And remote check deposits omfg woooooooo! But you are right for at least 75% of apps.
- shostack 10y agoYeah, gotta say I dread banking on my Nexus 4. Open app... Switch to 1PW keyboard... Manually entered long vault PW... Search for site because 1PW doesn't recognize the app for some reason... Select site... Click form fields to fill various bits... Ugh.