chapotraphouse

13446 readers

753 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank

Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here

Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

119

I must be getting old because even I'm starting to hate apps for literally everything. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My dad was trying to get a grooming appointment for his cat something that should take all of 5 minutes over the phone, checking a calendar and penciling it it, but no gotta do it through a web portal then an app, and make sure you put in your credit card number!

ofc my dad got more and more angry as even I was messing around with this crap going over fields over and over because I put in the wrong number, ugh. Bring back simple shit please.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

99% of companies want you to download their app just so they can push notifications to your phone on an OS level even when the app is closed or the phone is on sleep, unused. You can't do any of that with a website that's closed out

The other 1% are Google Maps, Uber, Snapchat, etc. where you actually need an app to handle all these features

I tell all my doctors/therapists/bank tellers how much I hate apps every time they try to get me to download something that could easily just be a website