[bobajeff]

Well part of the problem is that mobile browsers just aren't very good. This is changing. I find that Chrome's integration with the task manager makes using web apps more convenient now.

Still my instinct sometimes tells me to look for the mobile app first. This might be because on mobile I am often forced to a ghetto, broken mobile site. Maybe there are some things I expect more from a phone app like GPS/Maps based applications. Sometimes I get tired of dealing with sites that don't care that I'm using a touchscreen to enter text.

Google has made attempts at addressing this issue by rewarding mobile friendly sites but in my experience it has led to more sites forcing broken ghetto mobile sites on me.

The big issue is that there is a lot of big sites out there with lots of legacy code that assumed a desktop. And now that it's wrong many sites have adopted a strategy of having 2-5 different versions of their site. With the desktop site taking priority and mobile site sometimes being fourth place behind iOS and Android. All maintained by different teams and with separate frontends. This is obviously a big mistake since many sites can scarcely manage the development one version of their site (looking at you eBay) let alone 4.