Re:I Do Not Want Your Stupid App
by currysausage on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:25PM
(#10324853)
Yeah, but maybe I just want to, you know, read an article and not replicate the fluidity and functionality of a native app. Reading articles worked just fine with NCSA Mosaic, I promise it works fine mith Mobile Safari too.
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OP's argument was that mobile apps are only popular because the mobile web is not good enough. Obviously when the mobile web is used for it's original intent -- pages of information, mostly text, some images -- and not full web applications with heavy JavaScript dependencies and animation and share buttons and shit, it's a pleasure to use.
Re:I Do Not Want Your Stupid App
by Turing_Machine on Saturday October 03, 2015 @04:50PM
(#10325309)
"Yeah, but maybe I just want to, you know, read an article and not replicate the fluidity and functionality of a native app."
Exactly. There are, what, a billion or so websites nowadays?
Obviously installing an app for even a tiny fraction of a percent of those is not going to happen. Sooner or later, site owners are going to have to accept this basic fact.