I'm not a child. But I already have an entire OS running on my phone. Why would I run a browser on top (with all of its UI clutter) so I can use an app.

If I'm going to use an app often, for more than a couple minutes each time, I'm gonna use an app. If I'm just visiting a site for the first time, or I'm just going to stay there a couple seconds (search engines), I'm using the web browser.

Browsers are for browsing the web. Apps (run by the OS, not by a web browser) are for doing things.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Browsers are for browsing the web. Apps (run by the OS, not by a web browser) are for doing things.

hahahahhahhaahahha

im deep in the corporate, non-app web-based environment. this comment is so out of touch. i get that its your POV, but its not even close to the broader reality that most apps are just packaged websites and that browsers are nearly fully virtual machines and incredibly capable.

again, the apps exist generally because they want to capture more data than the browser allows (they are exploiting you). theres very little functionality that cant be run in the browser directly.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That sounds like a shit app. I just don't use those. And if I have to use them, it's rarely enough that they fall into browser's scope.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

A large quantity of apps are thinly disguised browsers "stuck" on a specific web page and with extra tracking and data collecting capability. I'd wager all shopping apps are this.