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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by ricketycricket on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:54AM (#22182716)
> What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality?

The desire to build web apps instead of mobile apps.

> Literally all of them could be implemented as responsive pages with acceptable performance.

Exactly. It's not a technical issue as much as an issue of focus/interest. Unfortunately, this has been a losing battle since 2008.

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by newfeatureok on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:55AM (#22182744)
> Exactly. It's not a technical issue as much as an issue of focus/interest. Unfortunately, this has been a losing battle since 2008.

This is true, but there are a lot of features missing from a responsive site that apps have. Of course, I'd argue that all of the missing functionality can easily be added to Safari and Chrome (to name the big two mobile browsers).

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