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It may be along the lines of wishful thinking trying to have a more captive audience than in a browser. A browser has things like a home page, back button, boo
by bdcrazy 5y ago
It may be along the lines of wishful thinking trying to have a more captive audience than in a browser. A browser has things like a home page, back button, bookmarks etc that are easily accessible. When you're in the app, everything points to more stuff in the app. One large metric appears to be engagement, its harder to track engagement in a browser than a dedicated app. Anything that keeps you engaged is good, anything that may lead you away is not. But its just as easy to hit the home button on a phone as well to get to the next thing.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoI think you're right, but you don't go far enough. I think you're missing a mechanism. The browser doesn't notify you. With the browser, you got to reddit (or whoever) when you think of them, and not before. But with the app they can pop up a notification, and have a chance of you looking at reddit before you would have thought of it on your own.
- happymellon 5y agoLinkedIn. I removed shortly after installing it because it kept want to tell me that I may have missed some recruters update. What a shitty default, they think they are increasing engagement but it made me uninstall the app, and use LinkedIn less.