I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.
Nobody Wants Your Damn App
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped trying to ruin it.
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
How Fugu is my browser?
The cross-company effort Project Fugu has the objective of making it possible for Web apps to do anything iOS, Android, or desktop apps can. Find out where on this exciting journey your current browser is!
Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable
Posted on Friday 29 Apr 2022. 1,955 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren't Winning. The Mobile Browser Is. | MarTech
Last week, comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings, but its big takeaway was this:
App Dissection
Breaking down the design details of well-crafted mobile apps. In-depth analysis of UI patterns, interactions, and user experience.
Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
Monday of last week I was all excited. I had just gotten the green light to start prototyping a new Progressive Web App for a client I've been working with.
What does it look like for the web to lose?
There is always some degree of tension between “native apps” and “the web” as platforms. If you’re going to write a native app for Android devices, well, I’ll qu…
This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I’m also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don’t blame you. I don’
There's Life Beyond the App Store
With the imminent release of Foundation for Apps, we've been chatting a lot about apps and how they're built. We've discussed the topic internally with our team, externally with our clients and with tons of our amazing ZURB friends. Much of that discussion revolved around not just how to produce apps, but what an app really is, how they differ from websites and even the future of where they'll go.
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
New project I built last week: a kind of "isblueskydownforeveryoneorjustme.com" dashboard, so I can stop wondering "is it my PDS or is it the AppView" when the app isn't loading - bookmark it for the next time something doesn't work but you're not sure what 🙂 status.feeds.blue
Atmosphere Status
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