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This is a topic that has been sitting in my living document of potential writing topics for a while, but never seemed to make it out of the queue, because of well, life.\u00a0 But the other day, I saw a meme that I\u2019d seen a few times before, but for whatever reason, it bubbled up this topic, and then I found myself in a position and headspace to where I might be able to write about this, finally.<\/span><\/p>\n But basically the meme was about how, [paraphrased] my most millennial trait is that large purchases must be done on an actual computer,<\/em> or whatever equivalent to that general message that exists.\u00a0 And being a millennial, I wholeheartedly agree, for a myriad of reasons, that large purchases really should be done on an actual computer and not on my phone or any other mobile device that I have.<\/span><\/p>\n Flights, vacations, experiences, large expenses, yeah, I don\u2019t want do any of that shit over my phone, because I\u2019ll never fully trust mobile data security as much as I would my own home\u2019s personal wi-fi, not that that\u2019s any better, but it just gives me peace of mind that it is.\u00a0 Additionally, checking out on my phone leads to all sorts of room for error when pecking in on a mobile keyboard any sort of PII, billing and shipping information, and the last thing I\u2019d want is a critical purchase to fail or bounce, because I entered in something incorrectly on account of being on a little-ass phone.<\/span><\/p>\n And then there\u2019s stuff like Rakuten and other shopping plugins that I have installed in my personal computer\u2019s browsers that I don\u2019t have on my mobile devices, that might get me a little bit of cashback here and there; sure, earning 1% back on a $100 purchase might not seem like a lot, but all those nickels and dimes can eventually amount to something in the future, especially if you\u2019re not paying them any attention and they just continue to accumulate quietly.<\/span><\/p>\n And finally, I\u2019m old and paranoid, and I like to have records of the things I spend my money on, so I have a penchant to take screen grabs and print to PDF confirmation screens and purchase confirmations, because at some point everyone goes through that paranoia of when a confirmation email doesn\u2019t come immediately, and you\u2019re left wondering if your purchase actually went through, and if you\u2019re actually going to get what you ordered, and that your money wasn\u2019t going to be tossed into the aether, to have to be fought and disputed for in order to retrieve.<\/span><\/p>\n So yes, I do believe that big purchases are best done on personal computers, even at the risk of sounding old and dated to a bunch of young shitheads whom I don\u2019t give a fuck what their opinions of me are in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n However the problem is that in this ever-changing and ever-evolving world, is something that I\u2019ve had varying amounts of objection throughout the years, which is mobile-first development \u2013 the practice of developing websites and e-commerce platforms that are designed to be optimally used by those on phones and tablets, with the conversely resulting secondary and B-tier performance for those on personal computers.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d wager that most people I know have been in situations where they\u2019re trying to do something on the internet, like visit a site, make a purchase or do something at their laptop or their computer, to little success, and then whether it\u2019s themselves or someone within proximity goes \u201chey, let me try it on my phone,\u201d to where they have instant and easy success \u2013 this is a prime example of mobile-first development.<\/span><\/p>\n Well anyway, it\u2019s bullshit, and I hate it, that the internet is becoming more and more in favor of mobile-first development, and little by little alienating those people who still use laptops and computers, and gradually phasing out those of us olds who actually like to make purchases of any size on devices that aren\u2019t the same things that we play games on and doom scroll while we\u2019re sitting on the crapper.<\/span><\/p>\n Phones are great for making purchases like food orders, or quick rage purchases on Amazon Prime when the store you\u2019re in is out of what you\u2019re looking for.\u00a0 Tickets, or social media sales platform transactions that aren\u2019t really that big of a deal.\u00a0 That\u2019s the extent of mobile shopping that I\u2019m interested in.\u00a0 To each their own, and I\u2019m sure the generations after me are fine with shelling out thousands of dollars worth of travel, electronics and experiences on their phones while sitting in traffic or dicking around on their phone while at work, but my old ass likes the ceremony and ritual of making large impactful purchases from the comfort of my own computer, preferably at home.<\/span><\/p>\n Welp, this wasn\u2019t as great of a post as I thought it could\u2019ve been, but whatever.\u00a0 Mobile-first is bullshit, and it annoys me whenever I identify when companies are obviously putting mobile device commerce at the top of their food chains over all other means of completing transactions.\u00a0 *coughDELTA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a topic that has been sitting in my living document of potential writing topics for a while, but never seemed to make it out of the queue, because of well, life.\u00a0 But the other day, I saw a meme that I\u2019d seen a few times before, but for whatever reason, it bubbled up … Continue reading Let\u2019s talk about how much mobile-first development 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