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Stopped reading on "- Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps." How is the answer "mobile" the answer to an
by gcb 15y ago
Stopped reading on "- Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps."
How is the answer "mobile" the answer to anything? it's like hearing microsoft saying "cloud"
About purpose-specific apps, how this even get close to simplified browsing? It's the opposite!
What to read website X on mobile? wait 7 months until they launch an app. And if they already have an app, you will probably have to go to the desktop to do something trivial (like adding a video to a list on youtube under android... you will have to favorite it so you can find, go to the desktop, move the video to a list)
My mobile browser for sure does not make anything simpler! Took me several minutes to import a bookmarklet to change the background to black and text to white on the current page. It involved setting up a webserver on another computer because it could't open pages on the local memory.
- benologist 15y agoPurpose-specific apps give them what they want without the hassle of the web - browser incompatibilities, plugins, codecs, address bars that might as well not exist, malware, scams. Remember that time a blog accidentally outranked Facebook for 'facebook login' on Google and people couldn't find Facebook anymore? The web is hard for a lot of people.
- gcb 15y agoAnd instead now they have 200 unofficial craigslist apps that do god-knows to your phone. We are back to the BBS days, everyone's downloading binary files!