The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?
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The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?
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#2How can I read that article? Even web link gives me the paywall.
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#3How can I read that article? Even web link gives me the paywall.
It opened on the medium app on iOS for me, and I could read it.
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#4This was obvious 10 years ago, so why have mobile apps been successful? What has changed?
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#5So the author proposes that most apps will be consolidated onto platforms such as wechat, messenger or aliexpress. With each new app, comes new requirements of the platform to produce better and more functional API's for the sub-apps.
Eventually these platforms will bloat and bloat until they basically become their own operating system.... then tada we're back at the beginning...
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#6I have two points on this.
1. The end has been here for some of us. But only for the apps the author is talking about. And these apps are the whitelabeled generic restaurant menu apps. If an "app" like that is not useful, who cares about it. If I need to order from that restaurant, why not just use the ordering app that includes that restaurant?
2. He talks about apps in general and how we have 100 installed but use max 30, so the rest 70 are useless, so apps are dying. I don't agree. We might have 100 and use 30. But I bet I have and use a different 100 and 30 than you, and you from the person next to you. That doesn't mean the apps are dying. That means there is diversity and choice. To me that's a plus for the platform. Of course we can get to extremes, but I don't think apps are on the way out.
In conclusion, I felt the post was "controversial" just for the sake of it.
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#7There are domains of problems that can be solved with the WeChat model. Money, shopping, paying utilities, ordering food, etc, make sense to have in one app. I don't know if I'd want my task planner or email/cal app in there.
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#8So the author proposes that most apps will be consolidated onto platforms such as wechat, messenger or aliexpress. With each new app, comes new requirements of the platform to produce better and more functional API's for the sub-apps. Eventually these platforms will bloat and bloat until they basically become their own operating system.... then tada we're back at the beginning...
It really made sense for the Chinese companies to go this route since they didn't own the mobile OS. They effectively become an OS like you say.
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#9Basically every flashlight app on Google Play contains adware or malware and wants non-negotiable (thanks, Google) access to my contact list and files and network. Same with many task managers and qr code scanners and other random little apps and utilities.
Fuck that. I'll install Uber and an IM client or two, but that's it. No more "that looks like it might be cool" apps for me. I've said this before - the app ecosystem on Android is like software on Windows circa 2000.
I don't know what the story is in Apple-land, but Google did this to themselves, and they deserve the oncoming fallout. Google Play has been a neglected disaster for years.
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#10How can I read that article? Even web link gives me the paywall.
Just open it in a private window.