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Re:Are apps even that relevant anymore? by cblconfederate on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:44AM (#24340717)
> people spend around 90% of their time in apps versus 10% in mobile web, so seem users find them relevant.

Which apps? 50% of the time is spent in their most popular app, and 97% of the time is spent in their 10 most popular apps. Considering that the top spots are taken by fb/instagram/whatever, what's left for discovery? I'd argue that the 10% spent on the browser is 99% of the discovery that users do, probably via links from their favourite apps.

It seems the app space is way more overcrowded than the web.

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Re:Are apps even that relevant anymore? by maxharris on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:13AM (#24351105)
There are a lot of things you just can't do well on the web. I'm writing an iPad drawing app that renders using Metal. It barely sips any power, while doing a great deal more work than Electron apps like Slack do.

It was much easier for me to write without the limitations of the browser and the web APIs getting in my way. Apple's APIs have a few warts, too, of course, but they are easier to work around.

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