Non, je ne vais pas télécharger ton application mobile de merde !

4 fév. 2013 14:00

Par aKa

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C’était mieux avant ?

Tom Morris souhaite juste lire un article de presse. Sauf que la procédure pour y arriver n’est pas la même selon qu’il se trouve sur bon vieil ordinateur ou sur son clinquant smartphone (ici un iPhone).

Alors Tom Morris en a marre et nous le dit sur son blog dans un style qui ne fait pas dans la dentelle !

How we used to read the news, back in the era of the Web:

Go to newspaper website.
Click on story.
Read.

How we read news in the era of fucking stupid pointless iPhone apps.

Go to website.
Be told you aren’t allowed to read the website.
Be redirected to an App Store.
Download the app. (This may involve typing in a password. Which may involve shuffling over to your password manager app to find your password.)
Wait while a multi-megabyte file downloads over your temperamental, expensive 3G connection.
Open the app up.
Familiarise yourself with an interface that has cryptic, weird touch affordances that aren’t actually revealed to the user and behave ever so slightly differently from every other similar app.
Struggle as the badly-implemented statefulness gives you a spinning loading wheel (on iOS) or flashing progress bar (on Android) because you had the audacity to use your mobile device on a slow or unreliable connection.
Attempt to find the story you wanted to read using a layout and information architecture that’s completely different from the layout and information architecture of the website that you’ve grown familiar with, because some arsehole decided that the process of reading the electronic equivalent of a newspaper needs to be “disrupted” because he’s been reading far too much Seth Godin or some other bullshit.
Realise that the app shows you different things depending on whether it’s in landscape or portrait mode. Now you can look like an utter nob on the Tube rotating your iPad around so that you can zoom further into the Page 3 stunna’s tits.
Not be able to share the story with your friends because it’s not a page on the web with a Uniform Resource Indicator. Because why do you need universal addressability when you’ve got shiny spinny touchy magical things to rub your sweaty greasy fingers all over?
Take time to download updated binary files the next time the application is updated in the App Store, that’ll provide you “new functionality”, even though there is no fucking functionality you actually want other than reading the fucking news.
If you are on Android, be sure to install some anti-adware software in case the app comes with some delightful bit of creepy privacy-intruding out-of-app advertising.
Give up, go to newsagent, buy paper edition, throw smartphone off a fucking cliff and start a letterbomb campaign against all the idiots who thought that turning newspapers into “apps” was a good idea.

In the “web vs. apps” war, I think you can infer which side I’m on. I wouldn’t download a BBC app or an NPR app for my computer. Why would I want one on my phone? Do I buy a separate radio to listen to different stations? No. The functionality is the same, the only thing that differs is the content. Apps ought to provide some actual functionality, not just blobs of content wrapped up in binary files.

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