I know this is true, but for serious tasks, I need the screen real estate. I'm amazed at what some people can do from a phone, but also wonder if they're missing things, of if it's actually inefficient.

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danielbln 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm going to bet that you are a millennial or older? We need our big screens for $IMPORTANT work (buying big things, money stuff, etc.). GenZ tends to be less bothered by it and just does it all on the tiny screen in their pocket. It's time to schedule a colonoscopy.

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dehrmann 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What if millennials are good at both and are choosing the right too for the job?

	▲	agoodusername63 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's not seen as important enough for others. Just like with a lot of things. Sure you could do a thing better, faster, more efficiently on a PC, but some people just don't care when 80% is good enough.

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havaloc 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My boomer dad does more things on his phone than I do and I'm Gen X. It's actually astonishing how much he does on his iPhone. I'm dragging out the laptop and he's on his iPhone happy as a clam.

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danielbln 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I've heard that GenX/Millenials are in a sort of PC goldilocks zone. People older than that cohort don't know computers and therefore use phones for everything, people younger don't know computers and also use phones for everything.

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idiotsecant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

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twelve40 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that's kind of an ad hominem, but also beside the point: most bank apps (and websites) are actually absolute garbage, especially the top ones, just one example: the Citi app (on different phones) for a very long time refused to allow me to make a payment or change my password, so i had no choice but to use desktop. Somehow still, top banks' ugly websites seem to allow more functionality/fewer bugs than their mobile apps, which are very often just dumbed-down webviews or simplifications of their websites.

	▲	danielbln 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You may have missed that I've included myself in that cohort, being an older millennial. So it's less ad hominem, and more self-deprecating.

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bjtitus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wouldn't call checking a bank balance and initiating transfers "serious tasks". Maybe important but they aren't complex.

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rkuykendall-com 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am going to guess you are 30 or older. Google image search "laptop tasks millennial" to see that this is a feeling shared among our cohort but not the younger cohort.

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jama211 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you need it, or do you just feel more comfortable with it?

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neutronicus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or if they go to the public library when those tasks come up.