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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by zeveb on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:01PM (#10275388)
> The only time you really need an app is for CPU-intensive work or accessing hardware.

Or when you want to own your own data, or work offline…

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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by owencm on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:26PM (#10275757)
Sites can definitely work offline using the new Service Worker system: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introd.... Try this example: https://voice-memos.appspot.com.
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by icebraining on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:07PM (#10275413)
Between Application Cache and various data storage solutions (local storage, the File API, etc), webapps can do that.

https://unhosted.org/

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