Re:Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settle...
by assttoasstmgr on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:42PM
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> Is it because customers are used to apps after a decade of "there's an app for that" marketing?
It's because we've conditioned an entire new generation of imbeciles with this as the bare minimum expectation. A web browser is deemed decidedly "old fashioned" to this group of people.
Case in point, I had a younger coworker openly mock and laugh at my use of a mobile website, "your app looks so old and archaic". He was right; it lacked the spinning animations, atrocious UX, and hoovering up of my contacts which has become the standard.
It's because we've conditioned an entire new generation of imbeciles with this as the bare minimum expectation. A web browser is deemed decidedly "old fashioned" to this group of people.
Case in point, I had a younger coworker openly mock and laugh at my use of a mobile website, "your app looks so old and archaic". He was right; it lacked the spinning animations, atrocious UX, and hoovering up of my contacts which has become the standard.