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by jbuzbee
3525 days ago
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"What's wrong with native apps?" Can you even imagine having a native app for everything we do today in browsers? An app for each Credit Card I hold. A native app for each news site I read. A native app for every social media site. A native app for all the map searches, directions, etc. we all use. Security updates? Nightmare. Multi-OS support? forget about it. We'd all be back to a Windows monopoly. No thanks. |
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If a bank/credit union/etc doesn't have a native app in 2016, I doubt they have a web app that's usable on a phone either.
> A native app for each news site I read
Right, because RSS readers and aggregators aren't totally a thing.
> A native app for every social media site
Those literally exist today.
> A native app for all the map searches, directions, etc. we all use
You realise you don't need a new app for each search you want to do? I don't even understand this premise.
> Security updates? Nightmare
Right, because having half-baked web-apps with millions of user's personal data all stuck in a big fat juicy database in one spot, just waiting to be breached and spread like herpes in a brothel has worked out so fucking well.
Every major mobile platform and the two leading commercial desktop platforms have app store infrastructure which provide automatic updates of client-installed apps.
> Multi-OS support? forget about it.
Right, because no app ever has been developed cross platform, and every web app ever created works perfectly in every browser with zero effort from the developer.
> We'd all be back to a Windows monopoly.
Wat.
Edit: additionally, a number of the things you describe, i.e. news sites, aren't web-apps in the way most people think. They offer very limited if any interaction or functionality for the user except navigating to find/read other news content, and possibly leave feedback. Those sorts of things are what the web excels at, because they're essentially used for one-way content viewing.