Apps - at what point is enough enough?

[WindyCommon]

I took my family to a gig last night.

This required:

- Ticketing app, to receive the tickets I'd bought online
- Venue app, to "access services" (eg. book parking) at the venue
- Queuing app - to join a virtual queue for food from a busy restaurant
- Restaurant app - to order food at our table

All of which I had to download from the App Store and set up accounts for, with the usual endless faff for personal details. All of which required email and/or device verification before they could be used. All of which do doubt contained evil details in the t&c enabling them to sell my data / harvest my organs.

None of which did anything to help me vs traditional "non-app" models. I would have been perfectly happy to receive my tickets by email/post, to book parking on the venue website, to wait in a line at the restaurant until a table was free and to order our food from a real-life person.

I'm tired of it. It is unnecessary and serves no useful purpose other than monetising me. Enough, is enough.

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[WindyCommon]

So it’s not just me then…!

Each individual app probably makes perfect sense. The combined impact of having dozens of them is fast becoming a nightmare.

Time to push back.