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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by oblio on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:45AM (#13856431)
You'll understand that "some reason" when you'll want some cool, fancy, useful app and the vendor will have not developed a version for your current mobile OS.
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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by TeMPOraL on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:28AM (#13856580)
Few of web apps are useful, though, and all suffer severe performance and UX penalty by the very virtue of being run within a browser.
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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by oblio on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:30AM (#13856587)
Few of any kind of apps are useful.

The non-purists (which is most people) have decided that availability trumps everything.

I was more of a purist, myself, but after some bad experiences with the lack of native apps, I'm more of a realist these days.

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