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>What GNU/Linux is lacking is the same level of Android app support and a way for organizations to handle many computers in the same way,
a desktop OS shouldn't run mobile apps
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@allison remember that if smartphones werent so god damn prioritized conversations would have been a native desktop app
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@meso honestly I'd use a few android apps on desktop given the chance, conversations comes to mind
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@meso @allison There's a bunch of programs on Linux to "natively" support Android apps
But, yes, why the fuck would you use a shitty mobile app on a desktop
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@PurpCat @allison @meso
> a desktop OS shouldn't run mobile apps
No OS should run mobile apps! Phones should have been limited to web "apps", like original iPhone was supposed to be. And Android shouldn't even exist.
iPhone having native apps — this was when history made the wrong turn.
Yes, there was Windows CE — targeted at corporate samuraii, who spent all day filling all those 50+ fields in their phonebook, with ugly "mobile" versions of websites as phone couldn't stomach proper browser with feature-parity to desktop one. Yes, there had been Maemo — only suitable for geeks who want to run emacs on their phone, there have even been gimmicky mobile consoles like NGage and there even have been Siemens P-series smartphones before that… All these devices were such a garbage that no sane person wanted them.
Even in original iPhone's era I could live in a big city and not have a mobile phone. I know because that was exactly what I did — I did not have a phone and it didn't degrade my quality of life in any way. I could even have a bank account and not have a phone, I could go the the ATM, print 20 one-time codes and use those — print another set when I ran out. And of course I didn't have to use a single app. Some banks still allow that today, but no one even has such a workflow in mind, it's just: "Why don't you just use our app?!"— because I don't want your fucking app, I don't even want a device to run your app :marseyraging:
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@allison @meso yeah but you heard the chirp more often let's be real
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@allison @meso pov it's 2006 and you're on a construction site or in a taxicab
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@PurpCat @meso sample size of one, but dad used a HTC winmo device for pretty much the exact same set of computing tasks that a modern smartphone user does now
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@allison @meso i never saw people using winmo or blackberry phones to replace a computer
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@meso I dunno about that one tbh, even before Android you saw a lot of focus on PDA apps
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@gray @m0xEE @PurpCat @allison @meso omg lmao
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@mischievoustomato @PurpCat @allison @gray @meso
Most of these apps give you exact same experience the website does, but enjoy extra permissions to perform checks that you're not using a proxy or a VPN tunnel — because you shouldn't. Why? No one knows.
Using geoIP is the most retarded security measure imaginable. Every single time my accounts get locked out for "attempting to log in from unusual location" is not some attacker, but me who has switched to a different VPN exit node :marseyfacepalm:
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@m0xEE @PurpCat @allison @meso My health insurance has an app that just loads their website. It even still has the pop up recommending that I install their app.
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@m0xEE @PurpCat @allison @gray @meso a lot of apps i use do offer extra shit that they dont on their webpage
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