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Totally. You don't need the Facebook app to use Facebook on your phone, nor the Twitter app to use Twitter, nor the LinkedIn app... you get the idea. Your brow
by Cupertino95014 4y ago
Totally.
You don't need the Facebook app to use Facebook on your phone, nor the Twitter app to use Twitter, nor the LinkedIn app... you get the idea. Your browser is perfectly capable of getting you on them, and remembering your credentials for next time.
And usually all you have to type in the URL bar is the 'f' or 't' or 'l' .
- alkonaut 4y agoAnd yet the apps are almost universally better. I mean using Facebook.com is painful compared to the app. But the same goes for most trivial apps that merely show an embedded browser and almost nothing else.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoYeah, I believe you're right, but on the other hand, preserving what little privacy I have left is worth it to me. Also not having a bazillion apps on my phone using up storage.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoThe few apps people install are a bit better. In general people don't install apps, but if they do they just install facebook, chat, and streaming service apps. Only those companies have the resources to build a good apps. Nearly ever other app is much worse than the web site in a mobile browser because most business just don't have the resources to build good apps.
- ccouzens 4y agoThe one time I installed Facebook I found it inferior because it was ironically less native than the website. Through the website photo uploads used my phone's native image picker which integrates with services I've chosen to use. The app used it's own image picker which was limited to photos that were saved to my phone.
- npteljes 4y agoIt's what they make it to be. If they make a better app, then the app will be better. If they neglect the app and focus on the website, the website will be better.