> they simply become the OS but slower, more abstracted, and with less security. I agree with slower, at least for computational tasks, but not security. Do yo

> they simply become the OS but slower, more abstracted, and with less security. I agree with slower, at least for computational tasks, but not security. Do you feel safer installing an organisation's native app than using their web app? > The only positives are to corporations and institutions with profit motives... What advantage does the web give to corporations that native apps don't? You mention spying, but the native mobile app ecosystem is filled with tracking and analytics code (and it's easier to hide it). The only corporation-level difference I can see is that native apps are heavily tied to a specific company's platform, while web apps aren't. This is a huge positive to the web - I've felt free to change platforms many times. A second huge and underestimated positive of the web is backwards compatibility (ie. lower maintenance headaches). A complicated internal web app I wrote eight years ago is still running despite not being modified. The websites and lousy javascript I wrote as a kid in 1999 still run exactly the same as in 1999. Spacejam.com is unmodified from 1996. Yet I have many native apps from two years ago that no longer run correctly due to OS updates (especially on mobile).