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It's frustrating how "mobile-first" has become "mobile-only". I've encountered several utility companies, banks, and other important services, who have fairly i
by didntcheck 3y ago
It's frustrating how "mobile-first" has become "mobile-only". I've encountered several utility companies, banks, and other important services, who have fairly important features only present in the mobile apps (whereas I prefer to do "important business" like that sitting at my desk with a large screen and physical keyboard). The worst is when they don't even tell you this, offering a desktop web UI that is essentially in maintenance-only mode, and you only discover things are missing if you happen to install the app
- ghaff 3y agoMobile apps can be useful but please let me do tasks from desktop web browser if I want to. Sadly, with the general shift to esp. younger people mostly using smartphones for many things, I expect the trend will continue.
- saurik 3y agoThe irony of this, for me, is that when the iPhone came out, I was annoyed that people kept building "mobile-optimized" web UIs that had some trivial sliver of the functionality that their desktop website had... even though the iPhone pointedly comes with a full browser capable of rendering the full website: someone had just decided "people on their phone will only want to do these four things so let's make a simpler website with painfully-large text that only has four buttons on it to make that easier for them".
- callalex 3y agoIt was also fun seeing how long some of those sites held onto their pinstripe backgrounds.