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Re:Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps by mgkimsal on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:20AM (#4626698)
1. File upload

2. Offline access

File upload is only now coming to iOS6, and wasn't in Android for a long time. It used to be in Windows Mobile, and was apparently pulled last year, IIRC.

Offline access - being able to function properly when no network is around is important for a lot of functionality required by applications. Some of this could be done with browser-side caching, but probably at a performance cost (at the very minimum).

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Re:Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps by ashray on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:35PM (#4629524)
When you load up Gmail on a mobile device it does some pretty aggressive browser side caching. Works really well! But file upload is definitely an important reason to have apps. However, the article is talking about reading the news and those don't have much to do with file upload..
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