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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by rifung on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:59PM (#18827143)
> According to research from the Chrome team at Google and others, people spend more time on mobile apps than they do on mobile websites. [...] 90% [of app time] is spent in a person’s five top apps.

To me this just sounds like people are drawing incorrect conclusions from the statistics? It doesn't seem like people spend more time on apps necessarily but that they download the apps for the things they use the most.

I imagine most people are less likely to try something if it's only available as an app. Having to download something just increases the barrier to entry like a very long page load.

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by hahabrew on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:02PM (#18827159)
so one assumption that could be made is that mobileapp use takes longer to accomplish anything compared to using web