* The trade-off is that they're alien to the platform either behave entirely different or at worst poorly emulate platform semantics.
* this is true-ish. It's not that they can't it's that they aren't. If Apple or Google just up and blocked a site in Safari or Chrome it's basically dead. "Technically accessible in Firefox" isn't exactly a selling point. You're also gate-kept by your ability to get a public cert.
* True but download size only really matters on first install. It's absolutely friction but not really something that I've ever seen people care about anymore. Pictures take up almost all of the storage on people's phones now.
* True but the trade-off there is that you have to download it every time. Native apps win in the long run if you use it often.
* Users have never cared about this. This is only a benefit to the very techy.
Re:In Defense of the Modern Web
by pseudalopex on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:45PM
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iOS can offload unused apps.
* platform agnostic
* can't be blocked by a central platform gate-keeper
* generally much smaller (download size) than native apps
* don't take up permanent space on your device (good for things you only use occasionally)
* always up-to-date
Personally I prefer native apps for tools I use frequently. Everything else I prefer the web.