^{THIS!! Put it in the damn browser.}


...Costing Brands Billions

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/02/15/91-of-us-hate-being-forced-to-install-apps-to-do-business-costing-brands-billions/

I've sat in meetings where someone says, "We really need an app."

Fortunately, in all of these cases, almost everyone else in the room says, "Nobody wants to download our fricken app. Absolutely not."

I'm a bit skeptical - is it really the case that willingness to install an app increases almost linearly with age? Debbie says no.

You haven't looked at many older ladies' phones have you?  I think they skew the mean.

Actually, I thought that too, but the drop off is almost linear. It's the dropoff from 25-55 that surprises me. In fact, I would have expected a U-shape curve with people in the middle least likely to install apps.

And if old ladies were skewing the curve, than the results would show women more likely to install apps, but they show them less likely.

I suspect that the sample size is just way too small to slice and dice to that level of granularity

I personally avoid sites that repeatedly try to push people into using their apps instead of a browser.  Those companies should get their websites right instead of trying to clutter our phones.

A few years back at my day job we developed a pretty great app. Navigation was good, everything was visible, checkout was good, etc. I think it even won some awards of some sort. But very, very soon after they just abandoned it and stopped pushing it since it was much more effective to just have a good mobile site. And one less thing the engineers had to maintain.

Fucking Reddit.

I refuse. I will not yield.

>f###ing Reddit.

If you don't mind the older interface you could login on old.reddit.com and get pestered less. 

> old.reddit.com

I use that almost exclusively, but only rarely login.  I also, ummm, recraft /r quite extensively with tampermonkey and an image-hover extension.  I don't know of any annoyances, but I don't use a phone browser.

On my latest phone I ditched a lot of apps and just use the web browser version.  In fact I like Twitter's mobile web version just fine.  That's now my SOP: I try the mobile web version first and put a browser bookmark on my screen.

Why bother installing apps since it's much better to keep more storage space and enjoy the same functionality in a web browser? Keep the tab in it and you're ready to go faster than finding the proper app among other apps. It also has to update itself once in a while with probably more bugs. The browser is almost always the better option - less bugs and works better. Twitter is the best example for this.

I have a decision filter for apps on my phone:

1. Does this app help me move or get outside?
2. If not, is it primarily for 1:1 connections (not 1:many or many:1) with the dozen people I care most about?
3. If not, do I use this app to make money or manage money?

Unless there's a yes in there, it's gone. That still adds up to a lot of apps.

My previous rule was: if I use the app every day, I delete it. That was a bit too restrictive.

Anyone remember Facebook breaking original features into multiple apps (messenger)? No thanks.

I do appreciate apps that allow content download for offline consumption. I enjoy Netflix, Prime & Spotify on flights.

I hate having to login to use a site.  If I click a link and I am sent to a login page and am not allowed just to look, NO THANKFUL.