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> If you have a place to live, you shouldn't carry all your belongings with you in a backpack when you go outside. I really don't like this analogy. These are
by kxrm 2y ago
> If you have a place to live, you shouldn't carry all your belongings with you in a backpack when you go outside.
I really don't like this analogy. These are entirely different concepts. A backpack has weight, dimension in real space that impacts the real world. A phone full of videos has no extra weight or volume in the real world.
- zulban 2y agoClearly, they are facing very similar physical restrictions. Not in weight but in bytes. If they want to carry many TBs on a phone in 2025 but then complaining that they can't install a 100mb app, yeah, they are carrying too much in their backpack.
- tdeck 2y ago> If they want to carry many TBs on a phone in 2025 What are you talking about? Only the most expensive flagship phones have a terabyte of storage space. There are no phones that have "many TBs". Mine certainly doesn't. Regardless, none of the following functionality needs an app. It all works great on a website, and doesn't take up any space permanently on my device: - Buying a ticket - Checking transit times - Receiving notifications (not only does email exist, but websites can send notofications) - Joining a loyalty program I don't have any problem with people who want to carry these apps around, but as an infrequent user of many businesses, it's death by a thousand cuts. I resent how what were once perfectly workable mobile websites are slowly being degraded in order to force me to download hundreds of megabytes of copy-paste support libraries for what half the time are just wrapped webviews anyway.