• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Pfft. A waitress of a restaurant in Universal park Osaka told me that their physical menu is inside their restaurant, and I noped the heck out and ate a slice of pizza instead. If I had to use a digital menu for no good reason I would really rather starve.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 months ago

        I’ve left two restaurants for the bullshit app-menu thing.

        Fortunately haven’t run across one since.

      • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        you can’t even get a ride from the ‘taxi’ here without their ‘app’… and an existing account, with a verified payment method saved.

    • Maven@crust.piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Ye I was typing fast and hit the wrong thing and then realized I was on my side account and not the main one im starting to use so I switched off and didnt even noticed until I decided to check notifications.

      Its fixed now.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    Instead of opening your 200MB web browser to see this page, can I interest you in this 200MB separate app to see this web page embedded in a data collection app?

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    72·
    2 months ago

    I block 99% of all trackers and social media.

    I can’t even order a fucking pizza online.

    fuck this commercial world.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 months ago

      As someone that doesn’t want to give my IMEI, location, and list of installed apps to anyone that asks, same here.

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    391·
    2 months ago

    I’m currently in a whole thing with the marketing team where we’re basically forced to do an app version of our website because bookmarks just aren’t done that well in mobile browsers. If you make the user install an app, then it’ll be on their home screen and they’ll be more likely to return to your site, whereas if you’re web-only there’s a chance they’ll forget about you after the first visit.

    It’s going to cost us tens of thousands to develop the mobile app, $100/year for Apple’s developer fee, and 30% of our subscription revenue, all whilst providing no actual technical benefits or making it easier for the user.

    Apple and Google have made billions of dollars just off the back of nothing more than websites wanting to have their link appear on the mobile’s home screen.

    • PartySlices@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      Just make your website a progressive web app, then the end user can install it just like a native app and you skip all the BS that a native app needs. And only one platform to support.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think Apple let you put PWAs in the App Store, and the install process for mobile is deliberately awkward for a regular user.

        Also AIUI they also don’t allow push notifications for PWAs, which is another thing marketing teams are really keen to have. It’s truly a race to the bottom.

        • PartySlices@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          You are right that iOS has some limitations, which I guess could be a deal breaker, but I’ve personally found it to be a great middle ground for most use cases. And android works amazing with them, so I guess it mostly depends on your target demographic. I’ve just used it in the past and it’s worked great for me.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      24·
      2 months ago

      Fun fact: you can easily make shortcuts for sites on linux and windows’ home desktop, which will open the default browser at the page. You cannot create a URL shortcut in the home screen of fucking android unless you’re using fucking chrome. Hell, depending on the browser, you can’t even fucking save the html for offline reading. I doubt iphones are any better

      • Landless2029@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I bet mobile phone shoppers are more prone to impulse purchases.

        When I first tried Temu I think I ordered like $50 of items that I didn’t need to rely on while doomscrolling in bed. Thinking it’s the same china knockoff from amazon but cheaper.

        I tried to return most of it and they told me to keep it with a return. It ended up in the trash. Yeah fuck Temu…

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Unfortunately desktop browsers make up a single digit percentage of traffic to our site.

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago
    • Panel 5 : Forced Desktop Mode “Hey, it’s me, a totally different person!”
    • Panel 6 : -> Panel 1.
  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
    2·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like Serializd. I love that site so much, but the dev clearly cares way more about the app than the site cause there’s so many basic features on the app that have no plans to ever come to the site (or at least none announced).

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      It’s becoming more and more common to not even design a website for desktop

      I can’t count how often I go to a website on a 1440p screen and I can see only like three things at once. I fucking hate that shit

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        My PC is driving a 40" monitor, imagine my pain. Even worse on the extended 55", but that one’s just for movies.

        SITES BE LIKE

        CTRL + - all day long. And I’m old and blind, hence the monster monitor.

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          oh yeah I forgot about the sites that automatically resize everything when you try to zoom out lmfao

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Back when I was young I was an ergo assessor and helped all the old people in the office actually use their computers painlessly. That shit has not changed at all and is paying serious dividends.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I do the web stuff for a very large news company, and over 80% of traffic is mobile, so product people don’t care about desktop. It’s being treated the way IE support used to be: an annoyingly necessary fringe user group. I imagine it’d be even worse in a company whose target demo didn’t skew sharply towards the elderly. We’re finally starting to move away from the idea of “websites exist to push people towards apps”, but it’s contentious and experimental. If I win, our sites will be far less annoying next year.