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When we see things like instagram, snapchat, spotify, sound cloud, uber, mobile banking apps, IoT apps, and more becoming native, then this narrative is more in
by spotman 11y ago
When we see things like instagram, snapchat, spotify, sound cloud, uber, mobile banking apps, IoT apps, and more becoming native, then this narrative is more interesting.
Just with the IoT stuff, and the fact that many of these apps use cameras, bluetooth, wifi, gps sensors, and more, I think that this is still years away, and by then, what else will native SDKs be capable of that browsers have not caught up.
Browser tech is just getting far enough along where there is things like offline data that works good, but it hasn't caught up yet. I think "app-ocalypse" is a little too strong of a scare statement in my humble opinion.
The article mentions google inbox as an app that shares code, but if I am not mistaken, this is still an app store app, so while they may be able to dynamically change how the app works server side, they still are in the app store, billing it as a native app, so this seems to work against an app-ocalypse.