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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.

It's as if shopping on a laptop is more user friendly or some crazy shit like that

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.

I think large purchases should be done on a monitor because not cross comparing prices/terms/sellers/etc makes one a fool.

Tiny screens are a marketer's dream. The downsides are another 2 menus deep and the shitty terms are 2 screens ago, just look at that pretty bold number at the top and the pretty bold BUY NOW button at the bottom. Whee!

If something costs more than $500, I'm doing it with 4 browser windows on 2 screens with competing offers, seller reviews, product/experience reviews, etc, confirming I'm getting screwed the least possible for what I want or need before I make the purchase, and often confirming whether or not the large purchase is warranted at all.

Gen Zs "I do large purchases on my phone," and to be clear I like Gen Z more than my own millennial generation on most issues, is just a minor derivation on a very, very, very old flex, perhaps the oldest flex of all: I don't care what it costs, I'll just buy it.

My gen X rule is the same, but workstation.

I can't believe they called a laptop screen big...

Mobile sites suck for comparing options and getting a “big picture” of what’s happening. The limited display size forces you to hold more in your head about what you’re doing. That sucks.

I was going on a trip, so I finally broke down and was going to setup a Uber account. Turns out that you can not setup an Uber account on the desktop. Only though the App and even if I have shopping apps on my phone, I don't enter CC info through it/

You also can't schedule a ride at an appointed time the day before, so when I arrived at my destination airport at 2am, I couldn't be sure I would have a ride from Uber. Yeah, maybe that's old fashioned, but those are none starters for me.

It’s like turning off your radio so you can read the map better.

Gotta go big screen for big purchases.

I hate doing anything on a phone. The UX is just bad most of the time. Most of the crucial information tends to be hidden away in sub menus. Dark patterns everywhere so you get psychologically manipulated into spending more.

Plus there is never an urgent time to buy something quickly enough that id take out my phone and clumsily navigate through some garbage outsourced app to do it.

Big LAPTOP screen? I forgo both my Laptops and Phone. Big purchases are made on the Desktop or the living room computer (which is hooked up to the living room TV) so all may see the confirmation.

I feel this in my bones. Right to the core. Anything important ain't happening on a mobile for some reason.

It shouldn't really be just millennials who do this, and there's a simple reason for it. Just about every web developer uses a desktop for development work, so most of their testing is done in a desktop browser. So mobile-only bugs do slip through the cracks more often, I find. imo that is the reason that to this day, a lot of bugs get overlooked on mobile.

I feel like food ordering services are always the worst culprits for some reason. Many times I have tried to order food on my phone only to get stuck in a login loop or some other bug that makes it impossible. Open the same service up on my desktop and it works perfectly first try

And my Xennial brain says "this is looks like a job for the desktop"

I can't comprehend people who does spreadsheets on a phone

The way i see it, most people have 1 expensive/powerful device for thier work, and a secondary cheaper one of the rest. I have a custom desktop PC for my important work, and a relativly cheap phone for less important/mobile stuff. While my sister is all in on her phone for her day to day things, and a budget laptop on the side.

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.

This is true for the obvious reason that a real computer with a big screen is just better, but it's also true for another reason: lots of vendors have been caught engaging in shady market segmentation tactics where they overcharge people on phones and/or using "apps," relative to the price offered to people on desktop browsers. It tends to be even worse for iPhone users than for Android ones, by the way.

I think the real reason a desktop (or laptop) screen is superior is really the ease with which you can open multiple browser tabs (and to a lesser extent, multiple profiles/private browsing mode) to compare prices, as well as the easy with which you can view them side-by-side instead of having to switch between different fullscreen views.

I’m gen z but I do this too

Yup. I work for myself and sure I have quickbooks on my phone... but you bet tour ass I'm using the laptop.

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.

The most millennial trait is posting screenshots of Tweets as memes. Bring your hate.

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.

I don't understand how people do things like shopping on their phone. I mean if you're only buying one or two items, sure, but if you're doing grocery pickup at Walmart or something how do you even function on a screen that small? You can't do any kind of comparison without flipping back and forth between multiple tabs.

Mobile is fine for reading articles, instant messaging, etc., but there are a lot of things that are absolutely better on a laptop.

Or even better the dual monitors on my desk

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.