[nsomaru]

Needing to install, open and update an application to use a service as opposed to the 'convenience' of just entering a URL in a browser.

[rimantas]

Web page does not need opening? Interesting… Updates happen automatically now.

[maelito]

After installing it, you need to open it (ok, it's easy). Updates frequently require approval of new permissions (android).

[mdadm]

But the alternative seems to be browser exposing APIs for all those permissions through Javascript and the end-user not really having any control over that. Perhaps I'm just naive about it, since I really don't do Javascript-based development, but this seems to be a worse idea than apps.

[technomancy]

Web pages don't require uninstalling when you decide they're not worth it.