I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in “realvnc” in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    Not to say that your relative is at fault, but this might also be a good opportunity to teach them about the font scaling and other visual accessibility settings in Android.

    • Avid AmoebaOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      They’re aware. This design likely also abuses imperfect attention.