Cliff Berg
2 min readDec 20, 2021

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I get your point.

But running engine diagnostics is a very specialized activity, and is quite different from a mobile app that is designed "for everyone".

I find that I am frequently frustrated with my phone - so much so that I have thrown it a few times.

But with the laptop, much less so.

I find the mobile experience to be terrible. It is virtually a walled garden, and a lot is forced on us. And we are spied on in ways that are difficult/impossible to disable, where in MacOS and Windows (not ChromeOS), one _can_ disable the spying, and one _can_ configure things well. And things _usually_ work well, without frustration.

It is mainly the mundane things, like reading the news, that I find so unpleasant on the phone. E.g., check out apnews.com. It loads popups and things are blinking. On a small screen the popups obscure what I am trying to read.

Or check out guardian.co.uk: it is constantly replacing ads with different ads, and the page gets resized when that happens, and I lose my place.

Or the Wall Street Journal - it doesn't even work in Firefox on my phone, because they use background image ads, and something is broken with that. So I have to use Safari.

Or phys.org - I scroll through the articlees, and when I click one, and then read it, and then click Back, it takes me to the TOP of phys.org, so I have lost where I was.

It is terrible. And a lot of the terribleness comes from Javascript.

There is no need for Javascript for reading static content. Its use has made things terrible. :-(

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Cliff Berg
Cliff Berg

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