Apps made the smartphone. Now, companies are increasingly leveraging AI to envision a world without them.
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    ive never understood why the ‘browser app’ isnt leveraged more. they are general purpose, multimedia, secure and mature. we spent decades making the mobile browsers very useful, and then build apps that just encapsulate a website. what an incredibly inefficiency

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Apps can harvest more data. Aside from use cases where high performance is required, that’s about the only reason.

      • kionay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        A shocking number of users would be hard pressed to figure out how to type in a url to a mobile web browser… or even know what that is, and they deserve a nice user interface too. App stores make it easier to find, too.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Counter point: Once in a while, people should be expected to reach up a little bit instead of society constantly dumbing itself down.

        • (des)mosthenes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          woooo thank you! it’s a react front end; pretty much all custom with some integrations like youtube player and maps. the back end is a python flask mongo api and I just scrape lots of sources for media. there’s some ai scripting for taxonomies, spam detection, sentiment analysis, etc.