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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by Zigurd on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:25PM (#12543052)
The mobile web isn't a good ux. The reason I use Facebook's mobile web interface is that the Facebook app is too intrusive. The value of Facebook's best ux isn't high enough to justify granting all the app permissions it wants.

Make apps. Make them nice and useful, and not spyware.

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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by emodendroket on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:28PM (#12543078)
I'm not sure the average native app is better than the average Web app.
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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by zepto on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:29PM (#12543090)
Perhaps not, but who cares about the 'average' app? There are millions of apps and almost all of them are terrible.

The only ones that matter are the best ones.

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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by nkassis on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:11PM (#12543468)
Because some of those would be fine as occasional use websites. Yet they just have to force a stupid popup telling you to install their app.
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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by emodendroket on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:53PM (#12544051)
In a theoretical world where I only ever need anything from services that have best-in-class applications, perhaps.
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Re:Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Da... by abawany on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:06PM (#12543435)
Here is a hopefully more useful open-source app for Facebook: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.indywidualni... . I use it on my tablet running Cyanogenmod with no Google Play and it works well for most features.
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