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It is a social problem which is hard to reverse. People use app stores because they are used for artificially worsened web pages. They are used to find apps wi

by nicce 1y ago

It is a social problem which is hard to reverse. People use app stores because they are used for artificially worsened web pages. They are used to find apps with similar properties from app store. And Google search is artificially so bad that they won’t even try it to find some apps. And most won’t use other search engines.

cosmic_cheese 1y ago
It’s not purely social. A lot of web apps are legitimately poor, probably because the web has become the go-to platform for those looking to cut costs, who aren’t willing to pay for quality talent. This why there’s such a gulf between VS Code (not technically a web app, but built with web tech) and MS Teams for example: the former has had no expenses spared to woo devs and give MS legitimacy in software dev while the latter only needs to technically function since its audience is captive, so quality can be an afterthought. So really, people need to start rejecting poor quality or poorly performing web apps. The collective bar for “good enough” is far too low, and so cheapskates will continue to churn out garbage.