Tag: app culture
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Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you...)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.
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A Random List of Silly Things I Hate
Just a list of eleven random silly things that I hate, to various degrees.
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Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
Terence Eden's upset at Google's proposed changes to Android to further lock-down the ecosystem, and I'm concerned too.
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What they say: "This site works better in our app."
What they mean (optimistic): "We couldn't be bothered to make a good website."
What they mean (realistic): "We can track and monetise you better if we can coerce you into installing this."