Ask HN: What do you hate the most in mobile apps?

Re:Ask HN: What do you hate the most in mobile apps? by dyingkneepad on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:55PM (#25389257)

Privacy. Fuck apps: if it can work on a Browser I'll run it on a browser. It may not be perfect in terms of privacy, but at least it will have a lot less power in fingerprinting me.

I don't care if it's significantly slower or wastes resources: I'll probably keep your app open for like 3 minutes while I do the thing I want it to do. The only apps that stay open for a while are browsers and games. Everything else should be a web page.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you hate the most in mobile apps? by jamil7 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:55AM (#25396567)

I build things for phones (natively) and also often for the web. It’s sad to see mobile apps perceived this way due to greedy and questionable tracking practices in the industry. To me a really well made Android or iOS app that takes full advantage of the platform is a satisfying thing to build.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you hate the most in mobile apps? by dyingkneepad on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:42PM (#25420520)

Yet it provides no additional value to the user if the user is only going to spend 3 minutes per day on it. Only downsides.

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