I almost exclusively use the mobile browser and don’t like installing lots of apps. They’re intrusive, they always want to collect things like location data, drain the battery, take up space, and spam me with notifications. The app is often built to steal more of my attention by being faster and shinier…
For example, no matter how hobbled the Reddit web experience is, I don’t want their annoying app. I’d rather sandbox it to iPhone safari and protect my sanity.
When looking at news sites, HN, ... my way of using those is that i open interesting articles in background tabs and then go through them. With an app I constantly have to go back and forth between front page and article. Especially annoying with longer reads.
I almost exclusively use the mobile browser and don’t like installing lots of apps. They’re intrusive, they always want to collect things like location data, drain the battery, take up space, and spam me with notifications. The app is often built to steal more of my attention by being faster and shinier…
For example, no matter how hobbled the Reddit web experience is, I don’t want their annoying app. I’d rather sandbox it to iPhone safari and protect my sanity.