An interesting article about how apps work and are sold fundamentally different than the Internet and how this could change the freedom of the web works. Wondering how this might affect the future of Net Neutrality Not letting me cut and past but article at link and not behind a pay wall. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/tech...ps-are-killing-it/ar-BBebFp8?ocid=mailsignout
I must be an old fuddy-duddy because I prefer to browse websites on the phone vs installing a million apps. Big FU to yahoo, probably the most annoying mobile site that pushes their app. I don't really agree with the author's conclusion either. The web isn't going away anywhere as long as a web browser app exists. And the apps that would draw users away from websites are aggregate apps like flipboard. The rest are either very specific use cases (ex. Calculator) or essentially portals to existing sites (ex. Facebook). There's no way the future is app switching to every website in the world. I'd guess that usage rates on phones is high for apps vs web browsing because the activities people are most likely to spend lots of time on are games, music, videos, navigation.
I hate apps for the same reason I detest Apple. They take away control and provide you with what THEY think you want. Its the opposite direction of innovation. While having a product a toddler can operate is fine, sometimes this is not the best way things should be done.
nope. apps are popular because the free market has decided. no one takes control from the people. the people give it up themselves so apple decides for the people instead. no one forces people to buy apple phones but when i look around i dont see anything but apple phones and laptops. its what people want but you want them to use phones like those droid phone geeks who like tech freedom and changing settings. people like cool, simple well built stuff that works and which everyone else has.
To the extent there is only so much time in the day, with more of that online time going to apps, web will get less time by default. Otherwise I agree with your comments. The other thing I hate is mobile versions of sites. I'm always switching to the desktop version.
Lol, it does. Its one of the constants that you see in every single review. Did you fall for that bendgate foolishness?
Maybe we'll see a return of the "old" internet if you will, where most people only uses apps with the rest of the internet (even more so) for subcultures.
app doesn't do everything...but neither does the website. take an airline app for instance...can i take the website to use as a boarding pass..nope..gotta email it or print it.. but using an app..i can do the 1 or 2 things i would need from the airline. i still want the main website when i am sitting down at my desk.
I downloaded this killer app which tells me what are the best apps to download. It's only on Google Play so sorry Iphone bronies.
Don't the apps need the web to work? Like when you use an app to check the direction to your destination, the app goes to a website to retrieve the data which gives you the result. Therefore, when we use an app, we are also using the web. Wrong?
I heard some lady at work describing Candy Crush to some co-workers this morning and wanted to ****ing shoot myself.
