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I have two points on this. 1. The end has been here for some of us. But only for the apps the author is talking about. And these apps are the whitelabeled gene
by pvinis 8y ago
I have two points on this.
1. The end has been here for some of us. But only for the apps the author is talking about. And these apps are the whitelabeled generic restaurant menu apps. If an "app" like that is not useful, who cares about it. If I need to order from that restaurant, why not just use the ordering app that includes that restaurant?
2. He talks about apps in general and how we have 100 installed but use max 30, so the rest 70 are useless, so apps are dying. I don't agree. We might have 100 and use 30. But I bet I have and use a different 100 and 30 than you, and you from the person next to you. That doesn't mean the apps are dying. That means there is diversity and choice. To me that's a plus for the platform. Of course we can get to extremes, but I don't think apps are on the way out.
In conclusion, I felt the post was "controversial" just for the sake of it.
- steviecleveland 8y agoYes. And in particular: > He talks about apps in general and how we have 100 installed but use max 30, so the rest 70 are useless, so apps are dying. Mobile app usage is (likely) Pareto-distributed which makes it... just as alive as every other such phenomenon.
- rimliu 8y agoYes, but these metrics web is dead already. I mean there are billions of the websites and I only have five in my favorites. The apps are dying and the year of the Linux desktop is just around the corner. (I wonder what's the ration of Linux desktops in use vs. Android phones in use, which are running Linux after all).
- pjmlp 8y agoI always find ironically that these type of articles mention how hard apps are to find and monetize and we should all go Web, as if the Web was wasn't that in an even bigger scale. Even PWAs and WebAssembly adoption means that the Web stack is getting more app-like and less hypertext documents.