Just saying, 99% of the app could be replaced by a browser bookmark. Of course some companies don't want it so they make their website unusable to smartphone.

Just saying, 99% of the app could be replaced by a browser bookmark. Of course some companies don't want it so they make their website unusable to smartphone. There isn't really much that technically would prevent people from using their web browser to pay the parking or to pay McDonald. You can have geolocation on browser too, save your account, take picture and so on. It's just better for these companies if we have their app because we can't use ad blocker and just close the browser. The app, it can send data 24/24. For instance, I have yet to find an llm or ai chatbot app that doesn't force me to have the Google play store enabled on my phone and to be logged in with my Google account. What the FCK they care if I have a Google account on my phone to be able to use chatgpt, deepseek, Mistral, lama and others ? More and more do that, recently the app I used to use to track food quality (Yuka) did that too. The more thing goes, the less app I use and the more I rely on web browser. And those who refuse to work in browser, i just ditch them. I feel like we reached a plateau years ago and now things are going downhill with android and iPhone.