Apple’s new Apple Sports app does one thing: it shows you your sports scores and nothing else. We wish more apps could be this simple.

Today’s computers are faster than ever. Even the cheapest phone is more powerful than desktop workstations of the recent past. And yet apps feel sluggish, cramming in ever-more-unnecessary features and hogging huge chunks of memory and storage. Meanwhile, clicking around on a computer from the past, with an operating system and resources so limited that it can be reproduced in a web browser, is quick and easy. What’s going on? And why is the Apple Sports app such a breath of fresh air?

“The trend toward bloated apps, despite advances in computing power, often stems from commercial incentives to capture and retain user attention within a single ecosystem. This strategy, while beneficial for data collection and user engagement metrics, often comes at the expense of performance and usability,” Sam Tarantino, co-founder of music streaming service Grooveshark, told Lifewire via email.

There are two trends at work here. The first is the tendency to cram more and more features into an app, which helps justify the ongoing subscription costs and perhaps drives away the competition.