what baffles me is that the mobile experience is still so shit in general after all these years.
Why can my mobile browser not block a site from blocking me downloading an image? Why can’t I inspect the source of web pages in any of the popular browsers? And even the niche browsers that allow it make it a shit experience. There aren’t any good programming apps. Why doesn’t Google Colab work properly on mobile? why is it so hard to find even just a proper text editor or a proper MS Paint or Gimp replacement? Why can’t I copy paste everywhere? why is selecting text still so buggy? why does my password manager’s autofill only work 20% of the time? why does chromecasting never properly work?
Just random things that popped into my head. I could probably list 10000 more points that, 10 years ago, I tought would be resolved by 2023.
And like this meme says, rather than improving, things seem to be getting actively worse as companies try to squeeze every last penny out of you by removing freatures or dumbing everything down even more.
To add to that, I’m generally resentful of how mobile devices are being push as appliances as opposed to general purpose computers. It’s practically impossible to get an unlocked phone, and you have to jump through hoops just to have control over the OS running on it. If you use a stock phone OS, Google or Apple will decide what apps you’re allowed to run on it, they can delete content from it remotely, etc. You don’t even really own the device in any real sense.
