The worst are when someone takes something that already exists and slaps ads on it. It’s as difficult to find a good sudoku app on the play/app store that isn’t riddled with ads or wants you to make an account as it is to find a bad one in my Linux package manager. What value did you provide making yet another shitty sudoku app? None, yet you serve me ads? The gall!
I agree so fucking much jesus christ. I would ban all apps as dictator
I used to make a living making apps and while there are legitimate use cases for running software applications on handheld computers there are a hundred times more apps than there are good use cases.
I have 2 apps on the Play Store. One is something I actually mostly just made for my wife that helps her figure out how well balanced her DnD dice are. It’s just called Dice Weight Calculator. But when you search for it, a ton of virtual dice roll apps come up. There are dozens, if not hundreds of them.
I used to work on the notification system of a big crypto exchange before I got fired for being a shit employee lmao
Other that a few intensive purposes like Uber, TikTok, Google Maps type apps, companies only create apps and heavily push you to download them so they can shove push notifications to your phone. It’s basically impossible to do 99% of that using a website (fine grained controls of what notifications, collecting analytics, delivery speed, proper scheduling, etc.) cause then you’d have to go through the browser’s notification system
Yeah. I bought a TV a few months back using a store’s credit card. 12 months interest free. Sweet.
Every month I visit the site and pay that month’s amount. Few weeks back I get an email to say that I can only pay the bill via their fucking app from now on. They literally do not offer a way to pay off their card that doesn’t involve installing their app.
It’s fucking mad. I genuinely can’t work it out. The app doesn’t have ads, I don’t let it push notifications, nothing like that. It’s on iOS, so fuck knows what it can see of my shit.
