Just yesterday I noticed how insane proprietary apps on Android became.
nearly all of these work 90% as webapps through the browser
the Webapps have some arbitrary limits though, like being partly PC-style only, or having “install the app” buttons everywhere, not allowing to view Videos, etc.
they have like 10 buttons and settings, dont do client side encryption and generally just do stuff the Webview can do
they are f**ing 400MB+ big???
Examples:
Sennheiser Soundcontrol
TikTok
Instagram
X
…
All proprietary bloated garbage. Updates take literally minutes on them. It is insane, as they should be like 20MB max, as everything is just Webview.
My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.
And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.
Just yesterday I noticed how insane proprietary apps on Android became.
Examples:
All proprietary bloated garbage. Updates take literally minutes on them. It is insane, as they should be like 20MB max, as everything is just Webview.
These are as big as Electron apps.
Firefox is ≈ 300MB big. AN ENTIRE BROWSER
“Telemetry”
Most likely use of insanely bloated libraries.
My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.
And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.
I hate banks so much.
If the Sennheiser app is just a webpage, how does it EQ my MTW?
To my knowledge the presets are stored in the headphones and you just switch between them. At least with my headphones.
And with the custom settings?
well you see it uses BBQ to BMW the CCTV, and if that doesn’t work it falls back to PNW for sending a VCR request to the MTG