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So just use their web site. Honest question - why do people use apps for such?

cblconfederate 5y ago
You mean you don't like being spied on?
micromacrofoot 5y ago
On mobile they heavily push people to the app... this is the answer to most "just use the website" questions. Reddit mobile has been particularly bad about this lately, by blocking content. Instagram hits you with a login gate after viewing a few photos, etc... all of these companies are pushing their users to the place where they can siphon off the most data, which at the moment are apps.
finiteseries 5y ago
Because that’s how <insert app> is used. The concept of apps and web sites being separate things, or being different, or preferable to one another isn’t on the radar of 95% of people, it’s a blurry shapeless vagueness the mind glazes over if it’s ever forced into recognizing its existence, and immediately discarded afterwards. You’re asking a forum of power users/creators, where a loud minority completely unironically still use desktop & laptop computers for activities besides work. The only people on earth less understanding (intentionally or not) of consumer behavior are the Sentinelese.
- JadeNB 5y ago
  > a loud minority completely unironically still use desktop & laptop computers for activities besides work. Is using a desktop or laptop for non-work activities ironic somehow?
  - finiteseries 5y ago
    I honestly don’t know what exactly irony means. unironically = sincerely/earnestly
    - JadeNB 5y ago
      Right; I wasn't playing grammar gotcha. I use my laptop for non-work activities, and I guess I do so sincerely. Do people use their laptops or desktops for non-work activities somehow insincerely?
      - finiteseries 5y ago
        Sure, for example as a last resort when your phone or whatever has died, but the charger is over there, ugh.
mdoms 5y ago
I think it's very unlikely that Tiktok could build an equivalent UX that would work in a browser, including the creators tools. And even if they could - have they done so? And let's not forget that Apple actively works against this way of working by intentionally gimping their browser capabilities and outright disallowing competing browsers.
mzs 5y ago
For IG the web site pales in comparison. I don't use the app but I have an account courtesy FB I think and all the recommendations are "Instagram recommended" accounts like pop singers and reality TV stars even after I followed some that weren't such as in real world friends and family. There's no way to discover other interesting material. So I guess it's because the web version can be much worse.
mattnewton 5y ago
Because these services usually do not develop their websites to parity with their apps and push users heavily to install apps.

You mean you don't like being spied on?

On mobile they heavily push people to the app... this is the answer to most "just use the website" questions. Reddit mobile has been particularly bad about this lately, by blocking content. Instagram hits you with a login gate after viewing a few photos, etc... all of these companies are pushing their users to the place where they can siphon off the most data, which at the moment are apps.

finiteseries 5y ago

Because that’s how <insert app> is used. The concept of apps and web sites being separate things, or being different, or preferable to one another isn’t on the radar of 95% of people, it’s a blurry shapeless vagueness the mind glazes over if it’s ever forced into recognizing its existence, and immediately discarded afterwards. You’re asking a forum of power users/creators, where a loud minority completely unironically still use desktop & laptop computers for activities besides work. The only people on earth less understanding (intentionally or not) of consumer behavior are the Sentinelese.

JadeNB 5y ago
> a loud minority completely unironically still use desktop & laptop computers for activities besides work. Is using a desktop or laptop for non-work activities ironic somehow?
- finiteseries 5y ago
  I honestly don’t know what exactly irony means. unironically = sincerely/earnestly
  - JadeNB 5y ago
    Right; I wasn't playing grammar gotcha. I use my laptop for non-work activities, and I guess I do so sincerely. Do people use their laptops or desktops for non-work activities somehow insincerely?
    - finiteseries 5y ago
      Sure, for example as a last resort when your phone or whatever has died, but the charger is over there, ugh.

mdoms 5y ago

I think it's very unlikely that Tiktok could build an equivalent UX that would work in a browser, including the creators tools. And even if they could - have they done so? And let's not forget that Apple actively works against this way of working by intentionally gimping their browser capabilities and outright disallowing competing browsers.

mzs 5y ago

For IG the web site pales in comparison. I don't use the app but I have an account courtesy FB I think and all the recommendations are "Instagram recommended" accounts like pop singers and reality TV stars even after I followed some that weren't such as in real world friends and family. There's no way to discover other interesting material. So I guess it's because the web version can be much worse.

mattnewton 5y ago

Because these services usually do not develop their websites to parity with their apps and push users heavily to install apps.