Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)

Why is this an “app”? This summer, the kids’ performing arts school are singing and dancing in a show at Disneyland. We’re all very excited, but my excitement, at least, was muted a little when I was told to install the “Travelbound” app in order to get access to the itinerary, travel arrangements, and accommodation details. Fuck that noise. This should have been a webpage. Why do you want me to install a(nother) shitty app just to tell me something that could have been a (smaller, faster, more universally-accessible) document? I’m not remotely exaggerating. This app is literally text, images, and links to PDF files, delivered via the Web. There only seem to be two things that this “app” does, that a webpage might not have, and they’re both anti-features: It reports tracking data associated with your Google Account back to the developers. It shows you advertisements (which they call “inspirations”) for other trips organised by the same agency. Fuck. Everything. About. That. A webpage…