Personally, I'd rather use the complete websites than mobile sites or apps. I'd also like to have better choices when it comes to mobile browsers (more on this later). I'd also like to have better tab management on mobile.
Browser choice on Android seems to be Chrome, Firefox and Webviews. Firefox never ran well on my phone and for some reason or another doesn't render sites properly. Webviews based browsers also don't render sites properly and they are lacking support for some web technologies.
Chrome is the only properly working browser on my phone and it always has me logged into Google sites and resumes from my previous session. Every time I use it I feel like I'm naked in a public place. And, every site has to be a longterm commitment as there is no easy way to close multiple tabs.
TLDR:
I use apps mostly because mobile browsing still sucks. I bet I'm not alone with this.
Do you people like apps? Or do people like these bookmarks* to things they can get to easily? May even be a web app for all they care, can they just click and get to it.
it's more nuanced than that. The web is now also reponsive websites.
I'm bullish on mobile mostly due to that very presentation. I'm counting the web under mobile.
The graph on slide 11 is pretty clear that the trend is for more time being spent in mobile apps than on the web. Unless you want to take issue with the data, there isn't much nuance there.
To whoever downvoted my earlier comment (if it wasn't the parent), please explain why. I don't have a strong opinion on app vs web so I'm keen to see data.
I don't think that means they "love" mobile apps. It's just that on mobile, web browsing is an inferior experience. Take a look at this data on the top apps: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Data-Mine/Top-25-Mobile-App...
Personally, I'd rather use the complete websites than mobile sites or apps. I'd also like to have better choices when it comes to mobile browsers (more on this later). I'd also like to have better tab management on mobile.
Browser choice on Android seems to be Chrome, Firefox and Webviews. Firefox never ran well on my phone and for some reason or another doesn't render sites properly. Webviews based browsers also don't render sites properly and they are lacking support for some web technologies.
Chrome is the only properly working browser on my phone and it always has me logged into Google sites and resumes from my previous session. Every time I use it I feel like I'm naked in a public place. And, every site has to be a longterm commitment as there is no easy way to close multiple tabs.
TLDR:
I use apps mostly because mobile browsing still sucks. I bet I'm not alone with this.