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What scares me is the obsession with supporting old desktop browsers and ignoring the majority of people who are using phones and might not have access to a des
by EamonnMR 6y ago
What scares me is the obsession with supporting old desktop browsers and ignoring the majority of people who are using phones and might not have access to a desktop.
- 127 6y agoSome inertia is probably good considering how much Google tries to turn the Internet into the Googlenet.
- young_unixer 6y agoI'm scared about the opposite: governments releasing only Android and iOS apps and no web version for their services. At least the web is an open standard.
- jfk13 6y agoIt's not just governments: one of the (major) banks I deal with supports many types of account -- such as mortgages -- only via their apps, not on the web. I think that's appalling.
- Master_Odin 6y agoSimilar thing happened to me with Itau in Brazil in that their website was barely functional (with the last month I was a customer I couldn't even login in) and had to do everything over the cellphone app. Super annoying as I wasn't a native speaker of the language and desperately wanted to use my computer for ease of use with translation software.