Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster

Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by nl on Sunday September 27, 2015 @06:50AM (#10286127)

Audio production: https://soundation.com/

Writing/debugging software: https://codenvy.com/

Now of course I expect we'll here the "but it misses feature X". I'm sure that's true. Next, someone will point out that generally, 80% of people don't need feature X, and the fact that it is online means it is many times more accessible. We've seen this over and over again.

Remember when everyone thought web based email couldn't possibly work for them because of feature Z? I'm sure that's still true, for a few people.

So can we skip that whole discussion?

But I don't know if the message we should get out of this is that the web wins, or than new ways of distributing functionality to more people cheaper wins.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by bottled_poe on Sunday September 27, 2015 @07:05AM (#10286155)

Let's be clear - I was never suggesting the the web can't beat native. The op was stating that the days of native are behind us. It is strictly untrue.

> Remember when everyone thought web based email couldn't possibly work for them because of feature Z?

No, I've always used web-based email clients. Did a software developer really say this?

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by pjc50 on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:06AM (#10286246)

Back in the early days of webmail, when IE6 was new and we had 28.8k modems, someone almost certainly said that. 20 years ago we used Eudora, PINE, Netscape's mail client, or (if you were really unfortunate) Outlook Express.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by pjmlp on Sunday September 27, 2015 @10:15AM (#10286562)

Still use Thunderbird. All web clients suck, including Gmail.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by tluyben2 on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:30AM (#10286294)

Pine -> Mutt -> Webmail for me. Those desktop clients were(are?) horrible. For iPhone/iPad I do like Inbox though.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by marcosdumay on Sunday September 27, 2015 @09:12AM (#10286385)

POP was horrible, IMAP made things much better, but the web clients had already won.

A modern desktop client is much better than a modern webmail client when it's available. It's interesting that desktop clients have been continualy improving, while web clients have been continualy getting worse.

Anyway, both have their use.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by bobajeff on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:38AM (#10286313)

As far as the number of products used and time spent are concerned it is. Most of the growth in the software industry over the last decade or so had been on the web.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by aikah on Sunday September 27, 2015 @10:00AM (#10286511)

> https://soundation.com/

> https://www.wevideo.com/

They are built with flash, which is NOT what I would call using web techs. The fact that you couldn't tell the difference is interesting. Despite all the flash hate, there are valid use cases for it.

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Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and... by andrepd on Sunday September 27, 2015 @11:20AM (#10286798)

None of those hold up a candle to actual native programs.

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