6 months ago
Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:31pm PST
Ask HN: Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software?
Be it as a user or a programmer I can't stand android/ios or anything that runs on a phone. The lack of keyboard, small screen, retarded cpu, horrible ecosystem android/ios is just too much. In a way i'm happy the "mobile craze of 2010-2020" is long gone (followed by the blockchain era and these days the ai era...thank god) but even so people continue to use java and make angry birds, i guess? I so miss the linux vs windows years when you only had nokia 3310 and people used to play "snake", literally no one thought of get-rich-quick schemes with lame apps on an "appstore". I also hate when Altman said on Theo Vohn "if you have an idea for an app"..no hell no - i hope no one will be having an "idea for an app" ever again. I mean "ai" today mostly falls in the SaaS category which could even cover google and youtube (it's a software after all but you use it as service through website frontend) and i don't mind it at all. It's very powerful and very lightweight this way, much better than the absurd constraint of dumb apps on ARM processor or whatever. In ideal world everyone would be using debian-based linux on "mobile pc stick" which projects 5000 lumens projector on extandable projector plane with laser projection keyboard...but laptops are cool too (i know...projectors are noisy, cpus on pc sticks suck - i have one haven't used it in years but in theory "it works/should work" + lamp fails etc, which is why i said 'ideal world').
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