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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
Apps can harvest more data. Aside from use cases where high performance is required, that’s about the only reason.
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.
Counter point: Once in a while, people should be expected to reach up a little bit instead of society constantly dumbing itself down.
yea I went ahead and just tailored my own app experience: https://s.marko.tech
Wow this is really cool. Mind if I ask how you built this? It runs so well on anything.
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.
How did you get started with webapps? Any good resources?
it’s just building a regular website pretty much with some extra meta tags
I hate the over-proliferation of apps, but I’m also sick and tired of “AI” being shoved down my throat.
Torn on this one, but I’m gonna stick with the devil I know (apps) since I’ve been largely able to avoid it.
“AI” 🤮
Interesting podcast on the topic
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-tech-bros-have-built-a-cult-around-ai
Voice commands suck.
Even if you get perfect recognition and perfect parsing, speech is slow.
It’s also loud.
I don’t need or want everyone sat in the same room as me to know every little thing I do on my phone. Leaving aside things that are actually private, that’s just a level of inane garbage that we all don’t need to know about each other.
Sometimes I just want to glance at the football scores without announcing to everyone: “OK Google, what is the current score for the football match between Swindon Town and Harrogate?”.
Edit: It’s currently nil-nil, if you’re wondering.
I don’t want to be ear-rape by people yelling at their phone (or whatever device).
Inconsiderate asshats already use speakerphone in public.
Ffs. Gonna start playing loud fart sounds from my phone next time someone does this.
And the conversations are always trivial, juvenile bullshit.
