Has anyone noticed that we haven’t really heard of a new app in awhile? I feel like the last time I heard about an app on the news or on Reddit(in the past) in a long time. The last big one I heard of was the Threads app.
Where are the apps? I haven’t downloaded a new app since I got Boost for Lemmy.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English10•8 months ago
I still download new stuff, but it’s usually one of
- game
- little FOSS project that’s replacing an existing app
- app that belongs to some service that I am using
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) English9•8 months ago
All the lemmy clients were my last app adventure. :)
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 6•8 months ago
Have you tried Candy Crush? Flappy Bird? Those are the main ones.
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months ago
I still have those, for like 10 years now…
- JimmyBigSausage ( @JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ) English5•8 months ago
Because like recycled movies in Hollywood, there is a circlejerk of app making void of creative energy.
- nonailsleft ( @nonailsleft@lemm.ee ) English4•8 months ago
I heard there was a new app coming, but I believe it’s still under review
- demesisx ( @demesisx@infosec.pub ) English4•8 months ago
I suspect they’ve started making device-agnostic apps using JavaScript and React Native. I’m pursuing Purescript solely because I was not willing to commit to iOS nor Android’s completely different ways of doing things…and I love Haskell style syntax.
I may be an outlier but that’s personally why I’ve avoided specifically targeting Android as a developer.
- PenguinCoder ( @Penguincoder@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months ago
Because there really isn’t. Everything be it games, apps, websites or movies are just remakes/reskins of the same old thing. People (and companies) seem to be afraid to fail, and thus don’t take on the unknown or new. Just repeat the successes instead of making their own.
I guess I understand it because when I ask myself what’s a new app I can create I have no ideas… maybe I’m not alone in this
- guh65 ( @guh65@futurology.today ) English2•8 months ago
Apple killed any possibility of innovation by lobotomizing the masses