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  • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    That’s never going to happen, and the reasons are twofold:

    Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users (because they obviously know better than the OS/DE/compositor/whatever people).

    It’s easier and cheaper to build a web app, because there are so many web developers. It also usually allows you to give an “app” to people who want that, while giving a (perhaps somewhat limited) browser version to everyone else, reaching the maximum amount of users while maintaining only a single codebase and keeping everything more or less cohesive and looking the same.

    • Baldur Nil@programming.dev
      0·
      4 months ago

      Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users

      That’s not a universal behavior though. There’s so many utilities and simpler apps made by indie developers or smaller companies that don’t care about this.

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        That’s technically true, but the apps “everyone” has are the opposite to that, and people are used to it and don’t really seem to complain. So if Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Amazon, Spotify and Aliexpress each do their own (garbage) thing, it shows other brands they can do that too, and they kinda ruin it for everyone. Basically the apps you spend most time in are probably like that, and it’s a shitty experience.