I just deleted the last news app off my tablet. I think that at peak, I had about 7, including RTÉ, BBC, Irish Times, TheJournal.ie, The Guardian.
In every case, the app
1/ added no useful functions over a web browser
2/ omitted some key browser functions, e.g. zoom, select©, open in new tab
3/ generated annoying notifications
I was surprised. These apps are expensively built and heavily promoted. Yet in my experience they are crap.
Have I missed something? Does anyone use news apps?
@2legged no. Apps are a cancer. https://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now
App-pocalypse Now
I’m getting pretty sick of being nagged to install your damn apps. XKCD helpfully translates: Yeah, there are smart app banners, which are marginally less annoying, but it’s amazing how quickly we went from “Cool! Phone apps that finally don’t suck!” to this sad, eye rolling, oh-great-of-course-you-have-an-app-too
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