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This article is mostly about just the need for a smartphone, not specifically about apps. But I specifically hate all the apps! I don’t want to download a Taco
by NotYourLawyer 3y ago
This article is mostly about just the need for a smartphone, not specifically about apps. But I specifically hate all the apps! I don’t want to download a Taco Bell app to order food or whatever. Just let me use a website that works reasonably well on a phone and doesn’t request a bunch of permissions I don’t want to grant.
- dangus 3y agoYou can order from the Taco Bell mobile website.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoI don’t eat Taco Bell. I’m talking about the app deluge in general and I guess I chose a bad example.
- dangus 3y agoIf you can’t even find an example then it’s probably not that much of an app deluge. Almost everyone has some kind of decent mobile site outside of the category of social media (and to be honest many of the social media sites like Facebook and YouTube have pretty excellent mobile sites). I’m struggling to think of a major store or service that forces you to use an app, especially if you exclude Apple’s walled garden (then again, there is iCloud.com).
- iamcasen 3y agoAgreed! What can we do about this? I'm an advocate for web over app, but that has it's own downsides
- Tokkemon 3y agoFast food in particular is such a weird concept to need an app. But Chick-fil-a's app is so much better than all the others they give the concept hope. Combined with their great service, the app is legitimately faster than a Drive Thru. Can't say the same of McDonalds.