We should all mentally rewrite "build an app for that" as "ask people to download an EXE or DMG to access the service". It's preposterous in most cases, but explicitly so for public services.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1246123081619275776 …
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"instead of searching for information, please know the name of the service you'd like to install, then go to the install page for it, then wait to install it, then launch it, then start doing what you want" is daft even before we get to the expense of building things N times.
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"I need this app since it's the only conceivable way to access information, like the weather or the news, stored on a server". If only there was some standard for fetching information from a server and presenting it in a gui...
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Pure science fiction. Can never work.
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