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Re:Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps by paganel on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:48AM (#12942584)
> Performance of modern web apps is simply awful compared to their native counterparts by any measure

For what is worth I can now only access FB from my phone using the browser (the web-app, so to speak), the native FB app has become ridiculously slow for quite some time. I use the native app only for uploading photos, once every 3 or 4 months. I'm using an iPhone 4 of which I'm still pretty happy, don't feel the need to drop 600+ euros on a New phone just yet if this one still does its job.

Re:Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps by rudedogg on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:47AM (#12942751)
The app is said to have over 18,000 classes: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

I'm guessing that link will crash on mobile, it slows down chrome on a desktop.

Re:Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps by blub on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:30AM (#12943210)
The native app tracks you harder, better but alas, not faster.

This will be fixed once web apps get more capabilities, don't worry, the entire web development community (except the josephg fellow above) is praying for it.

Re:Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps by pjmlp on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:50AM (#12943291)
I am also voting along josephg.

Since I returned back to native apps development, couldn't be happier, instead of having to deal daily with the crap and hacks on top of hacks, to make a stack designed for interactive documents work as a virtual machine.