I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
if the ‘big three’ have their way, it won’t be a browser to do ‘everything’, it’ll be individual apps instead. where they control everything, including ads and trackers and data collection, instead of in a browser where users at least have some control. but yea, where it’s possible or expected, an ‘app’ should have a standalone application to install or run available. and knock it off already with ‘apps’ that are basically just wrappers around a ‘mobile-first’ web page. apps should do something other than just browse your damn web site.
The big three killed my baby