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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by overcast on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:57AM (#13579924)
I'm saying it now, apps are on their way out, web only is the future. Everyone is completely sick of installing a stupid app for everything the want to use. Compound that with a billion notifications for all of those apps. With that said Steam does a pretty good. The discovery queues have led me to some great finds, as well as all of the curator lists.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by sotojuan on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:50AM (#13580506)
The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most businesses don't care that their app is slow and bloated and defer resources to the app).
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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by overcast on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:04AM (#13580684)
What do the majority of web apps need, to compete with native apps? 99% of them definitely DO NOT need to be native.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by j_r_f on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:48AM (#13590579)
I'd say the one really important thing web is missing is notifications for when your not on the site. I don't really know how a browser could ever implement in a similar fashion.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by mydigitalself on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:22AM (#13596965)
This already exists, just not fully on mobile yet, but it's coming.

http://w3c.github.io/push-api/

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by overcast on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @12:36PM (#13591000)
Email, or SMS? Though I don't see why Apples Push Notification Service, can't be opened up for the web side. They are already going through Apple servers correct? Safari has push notifications, let's combine the two.
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