Jan Wildeboer 😷
#AppFatigue IPA: /æp/ /fəˈtiːɡ/ (n) The tendency to NOT install new apps on your mobile phone because you finally understand that most apps should just be a website so you can seamlessly use a service on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device. Also a sign of distrust as apps are black boxes with access to a lot of data sources that invade your privacy in ways you can hardly quantify.
Inspired by https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116706445927726519
I noticed that I simply stopped caring about new apps a few years ago. When I get a new mobile phone, I have a rather small set of apps I install and that list is more or less the same since many years. Banking app, Signal, and a few more.
Ryan Lounsbury@jwildeboer I do tend to prefer a PWA over a native app. With the PWA my experience is the same across devices which is appreciated.
It does seem like we are past the time when new apps did genuinely new and novel things. Almost anything today is a riff on something else.