Clearly, they are facing very similar physical restrictions. Not in weight but in bytes. If they want to carry many TBs on a phone in 2025 but then complaining that they can't install a 100mb app, yeah, they are carrying too much in their backpack.
> If they want to carry many TBs on a phone in 2025
What are you talking about? Only the most expensive flagship phones have a terabyte of storage space. There are no phones that have "many TBs". Mine certainly doesn't.
Regardless, none of the following functionality needs an app. It all works great on a website, and doesn't take up any space permanently on my device:
- Buying a ticket
- Checking transit times
- Receiving notifications (not only does email exist, but websites can send notofications)
- Joining a loyalty program
I don't have any problem with people who want to carry these apps around, but as an infrequent user of many businesses, it's death by a thousand cuts. I resent how what were once perfectly workable mobile websites are slowly being degraded in order to force me to download hundreds of megabytes of copy-paste support libraries for what half the time are just wrapped webviews anyway.
