Apps!

Why do I need an app for Walmart? Same for bestbuy? Sams club? Even PayPal? In all cases apps offer cut down functionality of the Web? You can do very limited things in PayPal app compared to PayPal Web interface. Web was developed to achieve platform independence, Web does its job pretty well. But then now there is growing trend for apps? I don't understand why? There are certain things apps do better, but not all things. The things these apps do is no better than their Web counterpart. All they need to do is design their website for smaller screen size. But instead of doing that they are making apps for different platforms. That sounds very stupid.

Doing something for the sake of doing is not innovation, it is confusion. I think these people are confused, they see the post pc revolution and they think they got to do something. These confused apps are the result of their confusion. They are confused about how they can participate in the post pc revolution. And they think developing apps is the only way. In last decade there was a growing need of Web based application, because Web brought platform independence to the modern computer. Now we are in the same shit again but this time with mobile. What would rescue us this time?

I am sure nobody likes to develop the same app once for iOS and once for android, maybe also for Windows now. Would it not be nice if they can make them once. Well Web was design exactly to so so? But then? The trend seems really backward to me. This trend is really unhealthy for the technology. We need to know what apps are meant for? We don't want to remember post pc revolution as a confused era for technology. I don't think we need an Walmart app, what we need it is an Walmart website for smaller screen size.