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by threeseed 1263 days ago
Mobile web apps have existed for decades.

It simply comes down to the fact that the user experience is not as good as native.

And you can't run a successful business without making your users happy.

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This isn't true for 99% of business out there. Almost every mobile app is worse than its website in a mobile browser because most business can't afford a web dev team, an android dev team, and an ios dev team. The exceptions are the few apps built by the mega-corps that have the resources to build a good mobile app. Nobody want's to install some broken app with a fraction of the functionality of the web site, but that's what 99% of the apps in the app store are.
It's only not as good because web is purposefully crippled.