Simple Things For Simple People

Yes I know my last few posts have been well rather cheery and put apps into a positive light but I have decided that this week I am over that and want to say how I really feel. Plus making things up and faking a side gets rather difficult so why not just type about what I am actually feeling. Last week one of my fellow blog authors wrote about his niece coming into town and being able to easily navigate his phone and use all the app with relative ease. Now at first thought this may sound like a really good thing. I am not going to try to pretend things being easy is bad. I like to have a level of simplicity and user friendliness that makes it possible for me to pick something up and with little training be able to just have things work but I feel apps are too simple and I really think their popularity says something about us as a culture and a whole that they are so popular despite being mind numbingly simple.
I know what most of you are thinking and yes I did just say that I liked a certain level of simplicity in my technology but think about all the things you are missing out on by relying so much on your apps and not taking the extra minute or two to actually browse the Internet for what you need. With a lot of things when it comes to apps you are taking it down to one things opinion and making that final. Urban Spoon for instance you shake it up and it gives you a place to eat and you just go along with it. But there is something to be said about getting into your Internet browser and searching for certain types of restaurants in the area and being able to read reviews about them and pick one for yourself. Also I don't know how many times I have opened my browser and found a fascinating story on my homepage when I was going to get the sports scores that I would have missed out on had I just relied on apps to give my the sports scores and nothing else. Yes I am sure there is an app that will send me fascinating stories every day and I can quickly browse through them and see if anything catches my interest but that isn't the point. The point is many times its the journey and not the destination that makes many things so great and if you rely on apps for everything you are skipping that journey letting someone else take it for you so to speak and just taking their word for how the destination was.