‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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that is your takeaway? You're part of a cult if that's really how you think.
Part of a cult for wanting more options...
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How about this:
At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.
So if you lived there and didn't have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don't get to do laundry.
Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn't know. No warnings.
quarter slots on the washing machines
Thank god they decided to keep these free where I live
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I use GraphineOS on my Pixel 7 and even I feel penalized for caring about my privacy. Its absolutely nonsense, not everything needs an app.
Yeah. My bank is one of the few UK banks whose app won't work with Graphene, which is irritating. Also, the lack of Wallet access for payment cards is annoying.
But all in all everything else works fine.
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Even if I was willing to download all of those apps I don't have room for them. They chew up 50-300mb each (why!?) and if I installed all of them I'd run out of memory. Since most phones now don't support memory expansion I have to be picky about which ones I use.
most phones now don’t support memory expansion
Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone
Don't even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size. -
Part of a cult for wanting more options...
Not more options, you want your option to win.
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Not more options, you want your option to win.
And? Apple and Google are too big and influential as they’re. Why go attacking the little guys?
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As I've been making an effort to replace apps with the browser version of the service. It's so abundantly clear that companies don't want you using their website.
Even if they don't outright cripple functionality, they'll hound you endlessly to install the app.
It's infuriating to say the least.
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most phones now don’t support memory expansion
Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone
Don't even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.You can't compare (what is arguably) the pique of human computing to modern phones.
...I miss the c64
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Phone apps are nothing more than modern toolbars. And in case you forgot or missed this phase of the internet...
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Not more options, you want your option to win.
Because a Linux phone is objectively superior, duh
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You might enjoy SecScannerQR then. It makes it easier to vet QR codes by giving an option to search for the URL instead of going there directly.
Isn't that standard behavior though? I've never seen anything that opens a URL directly instead of just showing it to you with an option to access it.
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Not more options, you want your option to win.
Linux is awesome, what are you crying about?
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I have an app for that.
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Not more options, you want your option to win.
You're an idiot or you're trolling, I honestly can't tell.
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How about this:
At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.
So if you lived there and didn't have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don't get to do laundry.
Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn't know. No warnings.
That depends a bit on if it was advertised or not to have a laundry room. At least here in NL it is more common to have your own washing machine than to use a shared one so having a laundry room would be an extra to start with.
Still sucks though
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Considering your average printer is a piece of shit that needs to be replaced quite often, yes, using a website is probably more energy efficient.
Generally companies use service contracts to keep those things working so mo they wouldn’t be replaced often. They are just a piece of shit
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YES full support! I have and am sending this from my smartphone but I'll stop going to your store before I download your stupid fucking app for a free mcflurry or whatever the fuck pisspoor excuse you have for installing malware on my devices.
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Phone apps are nothing more than modern toolbars. And in case you forgot or missed this phase of the internet...
"2020 search"
Bruh someone's grandma needs help, we need to fix this computer, it looks like it's about to get stuck on zombo.com.
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Not more options, you want your option to win.
We want other options to be allowed to exist. This is "you just want everyone to be gay/trans/whatever" all over again.
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Part of a cult for wanting more options...
Ill be part of that cult
