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by berns 3640 days ago
That's why progressive web apps are so interesting. It's only after you visit a site a couple of times that the banner to add to home screen appears. And you don't have to download a whole app, just the app shell. If you visit a site sporadically, you are not bothered by the constant updates that you suffer with native apps.
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wvenable 3640 days ago
Is updates a bother? If I didn't get notified (and you can turn that off) I'd never know if my apps were updated.

A lot of commentary tries too hard to invent problems with native apps to level the field with web app applications.

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JohnDotAwesome 3640 days ago
> A lot of commentary tries too hard to invent problems with native apps to level the field with web app applications.

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but...

> Is updates a bother?

Yeah, kind of. Maybe just because I'm slow to update (my OS and my apps), but every couple of months, my apps break because I need to update (app devs apparently don't care about breaking older versions of their apps with API updates). On my iPhone5, I'll open an app (say, Facebook or Lyft), it starts up and then immediately crashes. This is how I know an update is available. I download the update, and yay, I can use the app again.

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k__ 3640 days ago
To me it seems the other way around.

For years now, we have a nice open platform for everyone (-> the Web) and people can do >99% of the stuff they need and it gets more every day. Then there are <1% of special cases that need native app functionallity.

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