alt Hacker News> booked tickets for a flight or bought a home or a car or watched a cat video
Would you install a native app to book a flight? One for each company? Download updates for them every now and then, uninstall them when you run out of disk space etc
I can ask the same question about every other activity we do in these non-native apps.
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apitman • today at 1:20 PM
You're doing all these things with web apps also, it's just that the browser orchestrates it for you.
But for some reason this takes 20M lines of code, which creates a moat that prevents browser competition.
I have installed all them on the phone, so yes.
Unfortunely several of them are glorified webviews.
I am old enough to have lived through the days Internet meant a set of networking protocols, not ChromeOS Platform.
And on those days hard disks were still bloody expensive, by the way.