The bigger the purchase, the bigger the screen. Plane tickets are fine on a laptop, but if you’re buying a car, you need a desktop PC. A house requires a Jumbotron.
Nah a jumbotron is too low res, what you should be doing is adding more monitors.
Nah, buying a house just needs three monitors.
I need to use my current screen to buy a bigger screen so I can make a really big purchase
Are people buying houses off a website?
You can sign the paperwork on a computer, yes. Sometimes.
I used DocuSign for the closing paperwork for my house. I absolutely did it from my phone.
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I prefer to imagine that people are putting a house in a shopping cart and trying to apply a discount voucher.
“Today’s sponsor, Houze! Use code “JIMMYJOE” when you buy your first house to get a free mousepad!”
*housepad, shaped like a little home
Imagine doing that and they forgot to remove the TEST50 promo code 💀
You use to be able to buy one thought a sears catalog.
Gen-X here. Technically, I bought my car on my phone. My generation grew up picking our Christmas presents in August from the Sears and JC Penny catalogs then waiting months to get them. Buying off a phone doesn’t seem that crazy TBH.
Gen X here, I don’t share either of those experiences with you but whatever. I used those catalogs (and now sometimes my phone) for, umm… different purposes.
My reason for this is how incredibly finnacky and often garbage mobile versions of websites are. I have a lot more control over my PC and what it does than my phone.
I will make it my life’s purpose to pay for a business class fight on a smartwatch, no scratch that, a smart ring, i will report back with further progress.
I can just picture you spinning the ring to read 1 letter of the terms of service agreement at a time.
I hate when they offer a discount for using the mobile app to make the purchase. My local airline does that shit.
Then which generation is this true for desktop screens?
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Yup. I work for myself and sure I have quickbooks on my phone… but you bet tour ass I’m using the laptop.
It’s like turning off your radio so you can read the map better.
Gotta go big screen for big purchases.
That suggests it’s just a matter of focus. I can open multiple screens on my pc without issue, and switch between windows and tabs easily. I also don’t have to worry about auto-correct messing something up, and websites by-and-large have awful mobile sites compared to the default on desktop. The mobile experience is just worse in nearly every way, barring portability.
People who entered the Internet for the first time on a smartphone have already outnumbered those who began surfin’ the web on computers. Otherwise opinions like this would be obvious to everyone, as almost any computer screen is massively better and mouse / keyboard control is far more precise.
It’s as if shopping on a laptop is more user friendly or some crazy shit like that
I’m gen z but I do this too
My gen X rule is the same, but workstation.
I can’t believe they called a laptop screen big…
Anything under 32" is inadequate.
Giggity
Thank you. I almost added, “That’s what she said.” But Giggity is on the mark.
You guys are making me realize I don’t have as nice of things as I thought I did.
Right? Laptops can be torture to work on in comparison, let alone a mobile phone. Without at least two monitors and a mechanical keyboard I feel handicapped.
Same here
Desktops and laptops make browing a large number of tabs easier and websites dont pare down the options and menus into a useless mess
Theres some websites where I have to look at in desktop bersion on Firefox mobile because theyre useless otherwise. Digikey for example.
Exactly. Why do sites decide “you’re on mobile, so you just don’t need to ever see such and such piece nformation”? I get that there’s limited screen real estate, but at least put that info somewhere, inside a menu or something.
For big purchases you’ve got to have the desktop version of the websites, you need a mouse for precision pointing and a keyboard for alt+tab-ing between windows, plus you need a spreadsheet open where you can compile all your research.
Or worse, “You’re on mobile, you need to download our app to view this content.”
Meanwhile you switch to desktop view and see everything normally.
Or even better the dual monitors on my desk
never mind the “big”, for me, purchases at all need to be on desktops or laptops. I’m too clumsy to use phone for spending money in case that 1 quantity becomes at 100 due to a mistimed swipe.
I think I’m finally figuring out why I hate mobile UIs so much. My hands are probably twice the size of the average developer. My figure tips are wider then theirs are.
Do y’all also know that, if you’re using iPhone and a 3rd party app, you will be charged more than if you did it on a PC? Apple’s App Store 30% cut is to blame.
I just need my phone to double check the dates someone texted me. The exact message that has the dates needs to be open and next to the laptop. I swear I’ll get the flights wrong otherwise.
