Shopify mobile app performance and analytics usability have degraded
Merchants report Shopify's mobile app has become slow to open and its analytics interface hard to use, describing a multi-year decline in quality. The complaint is vague but recurring, and users note they stay only due to lack of a comparable alternative.
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