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What a ridiculous claim. The explosion of apps is over, and the Internet is fine. Apple is not a gatekeeper to the Internet the way Google, Meta, and Amazon ar

What a ridiculous claim. The explosion of apps is over, and the Internet is fine. Apple is not a gatekeeper to the Internet the way Google, Meta, and Amazon are. Lumping Apple in with them reveals ignorance of their core businesses.

oblio 3y ago
The internet is not fine. If you look around 99% of websites are still pushing their apps, especially the big websites.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  And have they taken down their sites as a result? Yes, I find those publishers and apps annoying. But how big a deal have they become?
  - oblio 3y ago
    They're slowly boiling the frog if you look at Facebook, Reddit, etc. Also, part of it is a very long game. Younger generations rarely use websites, they mostly use apps. It's the same thing as Office and Windows being slowly moved away towards a subscription model: done successfully for Office, still trending that way slowly for Windows, where resistance is SUPER fierce. Just because the loss is happening over decades, doesn't mean the web is winning.
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      I definitely felt this was happening at some point, but it seemed like it peaked. But, fair enough, maybe I just stopped paying attention. You should be happy that Reddit just trashed all the apps, then. It would never have occurred to me to look for an app to use Reddit; nor did I ever hear discussion about it. It seems that people tend to use the same few key applications now: Instagram/TikTok/whatever-flavor-of-the-year-social-media app, messaging, the YouTube app, a browser. But you're right, in that you do still get hounded to install pointless apps to do a single thing. The other day I needed to download some soccer tickets that were being hosted by TicketMaster. After the TicketMaster-hosted site told me to download them to my wallet but offered no way to do so, the team wanted me to install their own app. Nope. Another thing that pisses me off is when vendors will make it impossible to do something from A COMPUTER. NO, I am not going to install a goddamned app and dick around on a tiny phone screen when I'm running an event and executing transactions with customers standing in line, Square!

oblio 3y ago

The internet is not fine. If you look around 99% of websites are still pushing their apps, especially the big websites.

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
And have they taken down their sites as a result? Yes, I find those publishers and apps annoying. But how big a deal have they become?
- oblio 3y ago
  They're slowly boiling the frog if you look at Facebook, Reddit, etc. Also, part of it is a very long game. Younger generations rarely use websites, they mostly use apps. It's the same thing as Office and Windows being slowly moved away towards a subscription model: done successfully for Office, still trending that way slowly for Windows, where resistance is SUPER fierce. Just because the loss is happening over decades, doesn't mean the web is winning.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    I definitely felt this was happening at some point, but it seemed like it peaked. But, fair enough, maybe I just stopped paying attention. You should be happy that Reddit just trashed all the apps, then. It would never have occurred to me to look for an app to use Reddit; nor did I ever hear discussion about it. It seems that people tend to use the same few key applications now: Instagram/TikTok/whatever-flavor-of-the-year-social-media app, messaging, the YouTube app, a browser. But you're right, in that you do still get hounded to install pointless apps to do a single thing. The other day I needed to download some soccer tickets that were being hosted by TicketMaster. After the TicketMaster-hosted site told me to download them to my wallet but offered no way to do so, the team wanted me to install their own app. Nope. Another thing that pisses me off is when vendors will make it impossible to do something from A COMPUTER. NO, I am not going to install a goddamned app and dick around on a tiny phone screen when I'm running an event and executing transactions with customers standing in line, Square!