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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

At every branch in your life, and with each new responsibility, apps will keep sprouting from your phone. You can't escape them. You won’t escape them, not even as you die, because—of course—there’s an app for that too.

Except that's just straight up not true. You can't escape it? You can't escape installing the Michaels app to get a $5 discount coupon?

I'm absolutely flabbergasted by what I'm reading here because I have no idea what the hell any of these people are doing in their lives where they're collecting this many apps out of necessity. This is entirely selection bias. They seem to be incapable of resisting the pull of trashy, useless apps, and insist the whole world is.

Nothing is stopping you from walking into any of these businesses, getting your purchase, paying with a card, and leaving.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I think you’re presenting a terribly myopic viewpoint. A lot of companies make the process of interacting with them so painful if you don’t use their app, that you feel hounded, harassed, and yeah, in some cases, forced to use their app. Do you really think your idea here hasn’t been considered by the author? Of course it has, because like most older people (in their 30s and 40s), that’s how it always used to be. The author is complaining that the way it is today, it can be difficult or borderline impossible to do the very thing you seem confused about.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

5 USD is a lot.

[–] tronx4002@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, as annoying as apps for everything is, very few are necessary, or even useful. I have had no problem going though life with minimal apps.