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by aacid 100 days ago
I personally hate that I need to download app from every company for every service they offer. On the other hand I love tje simplicity of opening webpage, do what I want to do there and forget it. Probably 80% of app in my phone are used very rarely, often just once yet they still sit there, getting updates, requesting permissions and sometimes eating battery... good web app can do everything native app can.
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> good web app can do everything native app can.

I could not disagree more

Your disagreement only remains valid because of Apple using their blocking power to quash web APIs from becoming standards. You can shill all you want for Apple, but they are being sued by the DOJ for abusive business tactics, which include leveraging their vote in the W3C to prevent web browsers on their platform from being as capable as native apps.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline

Sorry, but you are the one obsessed with Apple for some reason and are projecting the opposite of that (shilling) on me. I don't have any particular reason to favor Apple.

I do, however, notice that I have never used a program that was built with either a web stack or a gc language stack, that wasn't getting slower over time, wouldn't cause strange issues, and wouldn't have crippled UI to match whatever the stack's limitations have been at the time. IMO the right direction is developing (or adopting) modern native languages. If the "price" for that is some web standard being stuck, I personally am totally okay with that.

I am sick of this idea that the web browser is almost an OS. It was supposed to serve web pages.