We gave you ten whole seconds to enjoy our website and this is how you repay us?
Secret Panel HERE 🔒 https://tapas.io/episode/2553125
(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)
Sums up my experience with reddit, except I brought my own app originally and everything was cozy for years, then one day, this…
Holy fuck. I hate it when I try to go to a website on my phone and it brings up the app. NO BITCH! IF I WANTED TO USE THE APP I’D HAVE LOADED THE APP. There’s a reason I’m tong to avoid it and it’s usually because the app doesn’t have the thing I’m looking to do.
It’s better on the app
Sounds like you need to poach some of the app UI/UX developers for your website.
Your mistake is thinking ‘it’ refers to UX when it clearly refers to data collection and advertising (esp. via push notifications).
Almost always the two apps share the same codebase (and therefore UI/UX) anyway because writing native apps is way more expensive than wrappers for the existing webpage.
Why serve things to people anonymously when you can force them to install shady spyware onto devices with all of their personal information?
Omg. How long until we all have to install programs that can run any app on a computer by emulating a phone environment?
Instead of opening a browser and going to a website, instead we open a VM running phone OS, then go to the installed app.
I know the technology already exists to do this, by the way.
But will the next step then be, “well, the VM hogs a lot of memory, and makes the experience laggy. We are losing usage and customer data harvesting is down. Plus we now have to support an almost infinite number of environments. Or we lock it down so everyone has to have different specific VMs for each app.Or, or, how about this…
We make our lives easier and design a progressive webapp that works in almost any browser and can be used on any hardware that can run a modern browser. Sure, our competitors may copy us, but think of all we can save in development costs! And think of all the increased customer engagement we can benefit from! We just have to rebrand it so everyone thinks it’s new and shiny and not just a website.”
