Please, please, don't let me download any further app

A long time ago (2009), in a distant place (my youth), the words “There is an app for it” were the way to cause intrigue, novelty and maybe even excitement. It was a world in which the Internet was something you opened on your computer, fired Firefox and your bookmarks for your daily dose friends on Facebook, celebrity gossip Oh no, you didn't do itand sweet cat memes I can prevent Cheezburger. And then – and then – you closed it and went away And only as it exists in the world. Separated.

You have hung a calendar on your wall to track important data. You had a notepad on your desk to add and cross items on your to-do list. When they went to a restaurant, they gave an employee an order after looking through a paper menu. They printed instructions before they traveled somewhere. In one evening you took 126 photos on a digital camera, which you then diligently connected to your computer to upload every single photo that uploaded to your MySpace with the unfilter. You read physical books or, if you were lucky, an e-reader. You listened to music on an MP3 player with 30 songs that you had to change manually if you wanted a new playlist. You were happy.

But on the horizon there were these mysterious things that their richer friends already have access – smartphones. And they had apps for everything. Well, not everything. But things that felt important. Like calculator and music, and a visual that made it look like they had drunk beer when they inclined on their mouths. They were practically magical. And then the magic became darker than what was in one ring that made Gollum look like that.

Nowadays I hear the words “There is an app for it” – as I do so often – I can't help but shudder. Since this early, intoxicating time, in which iPhones felt like a rare and precious object, we have not only achieved the omnipresent smartphone all -presented, but also a full app overload. There is now literally an app for everything and there are simply too many apps.

I protocols appointments in a calendar app. I take notes in a notes app. I have two apps for e -mails, three for cards, four separate apps on which I have music, podcasts and audio books and nine, for which I pay subscriptions to get access to the small number of television programs and films on everyone that I want to watch. I have more than a dozen social media apps and offshoots of these apps (remember when it was a messenger within Facebook and not a very separate thing?). I have several apps for different cinemas, grocery stores, meals, passengers/taxis, real estate companies, photos and videos, individual shops that I wanted in 2023, even household appliances – I call it, I have an app for it.

And I know what you think. Just don't download the apps, right? Well, I'm trying it. Sometimes I really try. Nowadays, mostly, I decided to persecute apps that I previously used when I had a newborn that I remembered what I ever remembered Poo, Feed and easy mood change, my little terror – I my fishing rod. I completely avoided every AI app because this is a completely different topic of dark magic and interruption. Then there was the time when I refused to download an authenticator app – an app that is only available to be approved Register with other apps -If I thought I could dash all of my two-factor authentication codes in my unread notifications for eternity like a normal person. And then Elon Musk took on Twitter and decided arbitrarily that they had to use an authenticator app unless they paid him and I was outsourced and blocked by my account for 16 months.

This is all without mentioning the apps that you have to literally work every day. And I'm not even talking about those who are comfortable but interchangeable, such as the Clock app or the weather app. I mean, like the two separate apps that I have to communicate with my child's daycare center. Or the three separate apps I use to manage my money. And of course the three to five games that I am dependent at a certain point in time.

If you want to unite a doctor's appointment, there is an app. If you want to access a government service, there is an app. If you want to pay for parking, there is an app. If you want to order a damn menu, there is not only a QR code, but also – you guessed it – an app! I have three different apps for separate ultrasound services that I used in my two pregnancies