You are not alone. I am also in a rural area and have never found a compelling need for an app. I use the phone for making calls and texting. If the phone required even one more millisecond of my time it would go in the hydraulic press. If anything I've gone the other direction. If I can't go into a building and talk face to face with real people then I am not interested in doing business. The exception at the moment is Amazon as local stores do not carry things I need but I have stocked up so I can nix that requirement soon. Even in that case I browse Amazon from a Linux desktop, not the phone. I have never browsed a site from my phone.