[civilian]

I agree, they are better and faster! But they're expensive, from an engineering-time point of view. I think that small teams with a new product would struggle to have solid native apps on ios, android, windows, osx and linux simultaneously.

I've also gotten a pretty bad taste in my mouth about some companies pushing a native app down my throat. TripAdvisor would only show me the first three reviews on a place if I was browsing via mobile, as a way to push me to download the app. And now that they're on my android they sent me a couple of spammy notifications before I disabled them. I wanted to treat TripAdvisor like a website, not like an app that has access to all phone.

[Roboprog]

I have gotten to hate most Android apps, constantly sending notifications - spam on the screen, phone on the desk going "ding, ding, ding" all afternoon :-(

[kemayo]

On iOS, I've been adopting a policy of refusing the request for permission to send me notifications, unless I can think of a good reason I'd want to see them. I can always change my mind later and approve it if I need to, after all.