I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.
These should have been mobile friendly webpages.
I agree. It’s way more sus to download an app. The reason social media sites push apps over websites is because they can harvest a lot more data that way.
I have an app for programming my chicken coop
What kind of programming does a chicken coop need?
How much of a delay on the light sensor for the automatic door.
Often, the apps are there just to collect ad information for you in a way browsers don’t allow.
And send notifications
This is a very popular opinion
My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.
“If you’d like me to run company software, you’ll have to provide a company device for me to run it on.”
Never install work software on a personal device. Security, Privacy, Expectations (regarding personal resources).
Along with this, never use personal software/accounts/services with company devices. You can’t be sure who’s watching and can’t be sure you’ll have a chance to remove/collect your personal data before being locked out of said device.
And not every program needs an installer.
Just because I downloaded a program to write ISOs to a USB drive, does not mean it needs to be installed on the system. Unless it’s something like MS Office, why does it need to be installed? Just give me a zip file, I will extract it and delete it when I don’t need it anymore.
Your problem here is you’re running windows
I can tell you’re a Linux user lol.
You can tell he’s not a FreeBSD user because he doesn’t have to dive in and alter the source to make it compatible.
I hate propietary apps that are just services or stores and especially when they refuse to have a website and make you download their app.
I do not need 200 apps on my phone. Just one web browser app will do.