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Web app can be easily blocked by government. Look at telegram in Russia. Native app still useful without vpn.
by tvorog 8y ago
Web app can be easily blocked by government. Look at telegram in Russia. Native app still useful without vpn.
- xamarinthrw 8y agoThis doesn't even make sense. Blocking is blocking of network connection. Native apps still need that to talk back home
- tvorog 8y agoTelegram uses push notifications to update its server ips.
- evgen 8y agoNative apps can be a bootstrap shim for a more distributed back-end. PWAs are not going to be loading off onion nodes or ephemeral distributed networks any time soon. Native apps, especially those that can side-load or update without the app stores, will always be more resistant to these sorts of attacks.