Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.s. If you're wondering why you don't hear more about web apps, it's because Apple and Google hate them. Web apps totally bypass Apple and Google app stores.

Apple and Google enjoy controlling and taxing apps, but they have no control over web apps and don't get any money from them.

Apple even tried to stop web apps completely, luckily they had to back off: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-backs-off-killing-web-apps

Web apps are a way of getting apps directly from the people who make them, without big tech getting in the way.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.p.s. By their web-based design, web apps have much less access to the data stored on your phone. It's much harder to spy on people from web apps.

That's why so many companies try so hard to push you away from their websites and towards their app store apps, because app store apps make it much easier for them to spy on you.

Ross Wintle
@ross@crikey.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I really do wonder why we don't see more web apps. Whenever I come across them being well-done, I find it such a good way to make things. And I build plenty myself. Easy to spin up. Easy to host. Easy to update. And the web platform is so capable nowadays!

Dan Morris
@coldfish@sfba.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services this is very true. I wrote an app for my client's field engineers and I think a lot of the need was to track

Jeffrey P Burdick
@burdickjp@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
"No, I do not want to install your terrible app." is something I say often.

Bosque Bill
@bosquebill@techhub.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Ah, ha! That is interesting and makes perfect sense now you mention it.