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Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology

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Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

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[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, "a program should do one thing and do it well" is unique to the Unix philosophy. In mechanical engineering we have no comparable philosophy for components with weight; twice the moving parts cost twice as much.