Yes. As someone in High School my peers have no idea whats happening while using a computer and none of them hate that they need to install a bajillion apps for the dumbest stuff. They just do it and keep the apps, even if they legit use it once a year.

Basically none of them know what a folder is, that there are actual files inside their phone/computer. When I'm doing tech support I can't say "open the files app/file explorer and go to x folder" I need to hold their hand through it all "take your mouse here on this icon, click on this, drag and drop this here..." and silently facepalm when they can't drag and drop... Or I make them press keyboard shortcuts that does it for them. Many of them refer to any kind of sideloading/piracy as "installing an apk/installing as an apk" even on iPhones and computers.

I really really believe that mine and the following generations are substantially more tech illiterate than previous ones. Like of course they dont all need to be tech savvy but my dad or my 50 year old teachers know how to open folders or drag and drop and I can just say it as is to them and they will do it fine, maybe after a 2-3 second wait. Can't do that to my peers. They exclusively know how to "use" phones to scroll the social medias, take photos, text and such.

yes, the vast majority of web traffic is phones using apps. no person that uses this platform is an average user.

even if your family hates tiktok it's still massively popular.

especially among the youth who probably only have a really shitty locked down chromebook from their school and the recently developing world. in the global south most people never got a decent computer. they all got phones instead. once you're on a phone everything pushes you towards apps.

Yeah. My partner, who notably hates apps (I suggested hermit to turn websites into apps, and they rejected the idea until I reworded it as "Bookmarks"), mostly uses apps. Several people have commented that it's weird that I use the mobile browser for most social media (Lemmy being the exception).

Yeah it's apps for everyone now.