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Comment by pluralmonad | Hacker News Reader

Table stakes for which cohort(s) of people? Do you put an app on your personal device for every retailer you do any business with? Guess I'm just old and out of touch, but I would not spend any time considering putting the best buy or mcdonalds app or whatever on my personal device. Why would I?

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If I'm going to a brick-and-mortar store, if I go online at all, it's only to check stock/availability or look up a product's specs/foibles. No, $STORE, I don't want to create an account. No, I don't want your app. A web browser should be all I need.

Once again I'm reminded that the HN crowd operates on a hypersolipsism where reality is continuously constructed from first principles based on one's own ideals.

For anyone who can see past their own mental blocks and reads this far, the Best Buy app has 1.5 MILLION ratings on the App Store and is #18 in worldwide shopping apps. The Walmart app has SEVENTEEN MILLION ratings. But yeah, nobody uses shopping apps. Silly me!

I mean, you're up there positing that a company is definitely failing because their app is terrible. Accusing others of constructing a reality based on their own principles is a bit of glass house stone throwing, no? Practically every company with an app that isn't a tech company has a terrible app.

Eh, yeah, there are a lot of factors and I'm probably just focusing on one that annoys mer personally.

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