[sofixa]

> Or do you think places are making apps that no one uses?

Of course, because apps are "modern". You've never seen an app that should have been a website? I know of multiple places that had shitty apps built for extremely narrow use cases that had close to zero use outside of the team that ordered it (while it was meant for a wider audience).

And yes, I'm genuinely baffled people will bother downloading an app for a very limited use, like the transit of a place they'll visit once for a few days at most (especially considering there's Google/Apple Maps, Citymapper Transit; unless you can buy tickets through the app it's a waste on top of a waste). Has it been ingrained to such an extent that phone == app? Or is that an iOS thing, or maybe an American thing?

[scarface_74]

Could it possibly be that people on HN are out of touch with how most users use technology?

https://youappi.com/european-app-trends-2022/

[sofixa]

Which part of that could possibly make you think users regularly download apps for a single or limited use?

[scarface_74]

What makes you think that companies continue to build and support apps that no one uses? Maybe they have more insight about their usage then a random person on HN?

[sofixa]

All the apps mentioned in that page are ones that are used regularly. You can surely appreciate Tinder and Spotify are wildly different than a random resort town's transit times app? In the same way that there are useless apps nobody uses, there are many that are used for hours daily.