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Phones have used to be an exciting new toy that can do anything. Since then the internet has gotten worse, most apps are either shit or need a subscription and

Phones have used to be an exciting new toy that can do anything. Since then the internet has gotten worse, most apps are either shit or need a subscription and basically the whole thing has become designed to addict you. Getting rid of it would make work and family life harder. The few legitimate conveniences it offers, like knowing when a bus is going to come, work just as well on pretty much any phone.

spaceman_2020 4y ago
I just realized that I haven’t bought a single app for my iPhone in years now. I don’t even open the app store unless I want to install something. I remembered when I first got my iPad, I would spend hours digging through the app store to discover and download apps. Now its just basic email, messaging, delivery and shopping apps
- tmountain 4y ago
  App development has been targeting the lowest common denominator of users for a while. Basically, “free” with annoying upsells or terrible ads. The web and app experience of today feel like I’m looking at a grocery store tabloid. The more discerning users of technology have likely narrowed their focus to the fewer and fewer remaining high quality sites and apps available (HN included).
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  90% of the apps I installed are because I’m required to. Not because I want to.
D13Fd 4y ago
That’s definitely one side of the equation. There are good apps out there but the signal-to-noise ratio is terrible these days. The other side is that the rate of change has decreased on the phones themselves. We used to get big new features, but phones have converged on what seems to be the ideal feature set (for now at least). New versions usually only see a slight camera improvement, incremental speed or battery improvements, and maybe a change in the camera notch/hole.

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Phones have used to be an exciting new toy that can do anything. Since then the internet has gotten worse, most apps are either shit or need a subscription and

by schwartzworld 4y ago

spaceman_2020 4y ago
I just realized that I haven’t bought a single app for my iPhone in years now. I don’t even open the app store unless I want to install something. I remembered when I first got my iPad, I would spend hours digging through the app store to discover and download apps. Now its just basic email, messaging, delivery and shopping apps
- tmountain 4y ago
  App development has been targeting the lowest common denominator of users for a while. Basically, “free” with annoying upsells or terrible ads. The web and app experience of today feel like I’m looking at a grocery store tabloid. The more discerning users of technology have likely narrowed their focus to the fewer and fewer remaining high quality sites and apps available (HN included).
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  90% of the apps I installed are because I’m required to. Not because I want to.
D13Fd 4y ago
That’s definitely one side of the equation. There are good apps out there but the signal-to-noise ratio is terrible these days. The other side is that the rate of change has decreased on the phones themselves. We used to get big new features, but phones have converged on what seems to be the ideal feature set (for now at least). New versions usually only see a slight camera improvement, incremental speed or battery improvements, and maybe a change in the camera notch/hole.