[username90]

> I wish it was, perhaps may be by numbers i.e. websites vs native software but if we take mobile ecosystem, native applications rule and many of the web pages are just landing pages for those mobile apps.

Largely because iphone doesn't let you install a proper browser that doesn't lack most features from the past decade, and iphone users is where the money is at so that is what companies targets.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Although iOS browser locking is troublesome and dangerous for free and open web it's not the reason for why native apps are preferred on smartphones; It's because mobile apps are easy to access, faster to use and Big Tech invest humongous amount of money in promoting those apps as it can siphon more data.

[schwartzworld]

> mobile apps are easy to access

Easier than typing a web page once and then maybe clicking "add to my home screen"? Which is how PWAs work. They are great on Android, but iphone has deliberately not supported the standard.

> faster to use

Citation needed.

> Big Tech invest humongous amount of money in promoting those apps

Again, apple doesn't support the web, so companies that want to leverage web capabilities are forced to develop native apple apps.