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Progressive and Our Regressive Approach
- PaulHoule 10y agoIsn't this talk by Google about apps just self-serving? It's rare to find a mobile app that is truly better than a mobile web site (unless the whole point is to use the camera, gyroscope, etc.) and for that matter, it is rare to find a mobile web site that is truly better than a desktop web site on a tablet. (The one problem I have browsing sites with my Nexus 7 is that often it is hard to make big advertising popups go away) For instance I found some content I liked on the imgur web site and I was pressured to install the imgur app and (i) there was nothing better about the app, and (ii) I couldn't find the original content on the app. I would say the same about SPA's. I have a site using HTTP/2, highly-optimized HTML, SVG, CSS and that stuff which loads instantly. My SPA-oriented competitor has a 20 second load time for the app to start. Navigation is pretty quick once the app is loaded, but the visual cues when you navigate are unclear, so you don't really know if you are navigating at all. It seems that "chatbots" are a reaction to the reality that "mobile apps suck", since you can make a 1970s interface work OK on mobile.