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Once you downloaded all the apps that you need, it is not hard to believe that you would then download only 1 application every 3 months, or even less often (ro
by awqrre 10y ago
Once you downloaded all the apps that you need, it is not hard to believe that you would then download only 1 application every 3 months, or even less often (rounded off makes it 0 apps per month).
- Bartweiss 10y agoI have ~30 apps that cover maybe 80% of what I want to do with my phone. I can do another ~18% via mobile web, which covers the one-off tasks that I don't want to download an app (with attendant privacy horrors) to complete. The rest, I download new apps for. Which, as you say, is a handful a year. It's probably more than 4, but most of those are things I'm trying and then promptly uninstall when they're awful. I get why this is drama from a business standpoint, but from a user standpoint it just means that there aren't many things so appealing I download an app to complete them.
- MyNameIsFred 10y ago"Android developer" is one of the hats I wear, so I'm instinctively drawn to the "app version" of something. I have dozens of apps I find "essential" and use regularly. But yes, that list has remained mostly constant over the years (at least on my phone; games on my tablet are an exception to this pattern) as different apps and services have fulfilled my essential functions reliably.
- tdkl 10y agoI've recently switched quite some apps for a shortcut to a mobile site, because they just run a background service using some Google shit I don't use (AndroidWearSync - Todoist&Wunderlist, GoogleNowAuth - Strava). Getting rid of the app and using the website/finding an alternative liberates my device.