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noir_lordtoday at 1:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Indeed, I've no interest in native apps to do something that can be done in a web app and if you don't let me do it in a web app I'll bounce and either find someone who can or do without unless there is a seriously compelling use case (I'm not that dogmatic).

As a result the only native apps I use on my phone are Kindle, Authy and Firefox because I trust Firefox to prevent apps doing a lot of the sketchy shit locally a lot more than I trust an app/the host OS to do so.


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em3rgent0rdrtoday at 2:13 PM

> "do something that can be done in a web app"

I'll bite. What important features can only be done in an "app" but not a web app nowadays?

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carlosjobimtoday at 2:33 PM

A real native app practically always has better performance than web apps. And your data is on your machine. And it can integrate with the operating system. And you can do work offline. And performance saves battery.

A web app is almost never better.

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