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It's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it. (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even worse nowdays is shit like react native apps. Some of them are so slow and buggy it's unbelievable. I installed one of these apps for a supermarket chain (only because they said I'd get free stuff if I install their app, and free food is free food), and it said my balance on my supermarket card was NaN. And it scrolled though the catalogue of groceries at around 15 frames a second. To think this is the delivery and purchasing app for the biggest supermarket chain in South Africa!

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

"Download our app"

fucking Electron

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"Looks better in our app"

app is just repackaged website

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

> browse the web

> "I'm sorry, this feature is only available on our app"

> talk to customer service: "is it an Electron app or native"?

> they don't understand

> "It's a good app sir"

> download app

> it's fucking Electron

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