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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by saurik on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:44AM (#23193501)
While the percentage of time that I use in apps vs. the web is definitely heavily skewed, it is just two apps: Facebook and YouTube... occasionally Instagram or TikTok. Now ask the question "what percentage of products do you use are you using via an app or via the web" and the answer is going to be ridiculously dominated by the web: I might use 20 different products over the course of 10 minutes on the web while researching some topic, flipping between hacker news, stack overflow, medium, smaller personal blogs, documentation from microsoft or mozilla, major and minor news sites... this list is absolutely endless. Even for sites I might use that have an app, I am not going to open that app for just the one page I want from it as that's slower and pointless as I probably only want to use that site for five seconds.

Essentially, you have purposefully asked the wrong question in order to lie to us using statistics.

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