But also, not everything needs a damn app. “Why visit our website, imdb.com, to get the information you need when you need it without any overhead on your device? Instead you can download the imdb app, have a nearly identical experience as the website, but also we can take up storage on your phone, push stupid notifications and steal your data!”
I don’t mind “Web apps” that let you install an icon on your phone that basically open up a frameless browser window. Seerr (nee Overseerr) does that and it’s a great experience. 363kB used on my device.
For contrast, the Burger King app is also just a portal to their website, and it uses well over a hundred MB for the same kind of “this is the site” experience.
It doesn’t make sense to me that an app that uses the system provided browser and has little more than a couple of bitmaps and something like an oAuth token needs that kind of space.
Nobody “invented” that. Someone can’t fucking code.
But also, not everything needs a damn app. “Why visit our website, imdb.com, to get the information you need when you need it without any overhead on your device? Instead you can download the imdb app, have a nearly identical experience as the website, but also we can take up storage on your phone, push stupid notifications and steal your data!”
I don’t mind “Web apps” that let you install an icon on your phone that basically open up a frameless browser window. Seerr (nee Overseerr) does that and it’s a great experience. 363kB used on my device.
For contrast, the Burger King app is also just a portal to their website, and it uses well over a hundred MB for the same kind of “this is the site” experience.
It doesn’t make sense to me that an app that uses the system provided browser and has little more than a couple of bitmaps and something like an oAuth token needs that kind of space.