alt Hacker NewsA 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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freedomben • today at 3:12 PM
> And your data is on your machine.
Not really true anymore, especially on mobile. Plus the privacy invading abilities of native are much higher
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True for genuine native apps, but most apps these days are just wrappers around web apps so you get none of the benefits of a true native app while also losing some of the benefits of a web app.