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  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    An explanation I’ve heard for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store on our phones and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.

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      11 months ago

      That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything. On a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser, so many services already existed this way and also remain accessible through that.

      And even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.

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        11 months ago

        Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.