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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] 8 points 1 year ago

Thank fuck early desktop GUIs used the resizable windows multi-tasking paradigm.

Potentially having tiny browser windows means that every website will have to be somewhat responsive just to get usage in corporate offices. I'd much rather have to spoof being a smol bean chrome window than install every shitty app.