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by Abishek_Muthian
1776 days ago
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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. |
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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.